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Donald E. Westlake

"Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?"

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Donna Grant

"Big Brother is watching you."

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Donna Grant

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

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Donna Grant

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

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Donna Grant

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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Donna Grant

"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

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Donna Grant

"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

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Donna Grant

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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Donna Grant

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

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Donna Grant

"Children are angels."

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Donna Grant

"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

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Donald E. Westlake
"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."

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Donald E. Westlake
"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."

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Donald E. Westlake
"Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?"

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Donald E. Westlake
"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."

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Donald E. Westlake
"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."

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Donald E. Westlake
"All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers."

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Donald E. Westlake
"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."

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Donald E. Westlake
"I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again."

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Donald E. Westlake
"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."

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Donald E. Westlake
"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."

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