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All Quotes by author - Donald E. Westlake
" A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview. "
Her
Bank
Interview
" All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. "
Publishing
Far
Significant
" Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it. "
New
Looking
Somebody
" I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way. "
Age
World
Way
" If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all. "
Were
Publishing
Industry
" If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers. "
Say
You
Society
" I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss. "
I Am
Reality
Boss
" I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again. "
Look
Again
Time
" I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off. "
Language
Story
Start
" My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output. "
Lose
Try
Touch
" Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder. "
Up
Stories
Nothing
" Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me. "
Never
Me
Choice
" Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote. "
Master
Chess
Writing
" Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it. "
Advice
Just Do It
Sorry
" The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed. "
People
Short
Farm
" When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind. "
Somewhere
Wrong
Mind
" Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother? "
Talk
Gonna
Boy
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