Quotes Donald E. Westlake

A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a ma...

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant....

But the small robbery, by forcing an upgrade of defensive sy...

Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a wh...

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without ...

I don't do anything about maintaining quality, I just try to...

I don't know that any one book was of larger than normal sig...

I find characters who are at cross-purposes with society, or...

I had an idea for a multiple robbery story that I thought wo...

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here...

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when th...

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, an...

I used to be less flexible, but realized there was no point ...

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wo...

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, th...

Meehan evolved into his story. If you think of Parker as fas...

My father wanted me to be an architect. The one thing I lear...

My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constan...

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, exce...

Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choi...

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dime...

Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it....

The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to...

The problem was, he had to resolve, one way or another. If h...

They have to be clever, cunning, imaginative, dogged and wil...