Quotes by Donald E. Westlake

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.

Farewell

Funny

Jobs

A grifter’s got an irresistible urge to be the guy who’s wise. There’s nothin’ to whipping a fool. Hell, fools are made to be whipped. But to take another pro. Even your partner, who knows you and has his eye on you. That’s a score! No matter what happens.

Cheating

Eye

Wise

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

1960s

Publishing

Significant

As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

Christmas

Family

Struggle

Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

Caring

Christmas

Struggle

Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

Caring

Ties

Together

Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.

New York

Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.

Buttons

Eye

Firsts

For a long while, I found Parker impossible. He went away for 23 years. I tried to bring him back a few times, and I sort of figured out where he came from, why he went away, and why he came back. The thing that I have to tap into for Parker is in some way the outsider. If I can tap into the outsider, I can write about Parker, and if I can’t, I can’t.

Long

Outsiders

Writing

Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.

Battered

Brands

Hero

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1960s

Advice

Animal

Antisocial

Art

Attitude

Audience

Bathroom

Battered

Believe

Block

Book

Boss

Boys

Brands

Buttons

Cake

Caring

Character

Cheating

Chess

Choices

Christ

Christmas

Cities

Coffee

College

Conscious

Couple

Different

Difficult

Doors

Easy

Emerging

Emotional

Eye

Faces

Facts

Failing

Family

Farewell

Father

Fire

Firm

Firsts

Funny

Giving

Goofy

Gun

Guy

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Quotes by Donald E. Westlake

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.

A grifter’s got an irresistible urge to be the guy who’s wise. There’s nothin’ to whipping a fool. Hell, fools are made to be whipped. But to take another pro. Even your partner, who knows you and has his eye on you. That’s a score! No matter what happens.

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.

Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.

Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.

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