Donald E. Westlake Quotes

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

Donald E. Westlake

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 12, 1933 - December 31, 2008

Topics

HopeTimeLookSenseNoteAgain

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

Jeanne Moreau

AgingPeopleWorryYouLookPretty

I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success.

Michael Feldman

SuccessFailureMyselfMindThink

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

John Shelton Reed

LiveCareYouPoorRaceMore

I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an actor, and when they liked me as an actor, I told them, 'Now, you like my politics.'

Amitabh Bachchan

PoliticsPeopleMeYouCountryNow

I always wrote for myself. I figured I'm not that different from other people. If there's a story I like a lot, there's got to be others with similar tastes.

Stan Lee

MyselfPeopleStoryOthersAlways

I've read in a couple stories that I was raised Episcopalian, but that's not true. I think that's just people assuming things. In some ways, I wish I was raised Episcopalian. I was kind of raised hodgepodge.

Sufjan Stevens

PeopleThinkWishKindTrueI Wish

Everyone's going to like something that's different.

Logic

EveryoneSomethingGoingDifferent

Time is water, and the Venetians conquered both by building a city on water, and framed time with their canals. Or tamed time. Or fenced it in. Or caged it.

Joseph Brodsky

TimeWaterCityBuildingConquered

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

Dinah Shore

Just BecauseNeverUpSocialJust

When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.

Donald Ray Pollock

LivePeopleGrowing UpUncomfortable

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

Philip Schaff

WorldBookChristianRulesMore

Although the ICRC and the World Economic Forum have separate missions, they both are centred on collaboration across sectors and between various actors in order to improve the state of the world.

Peter Maurer

CollaborationWorldImproveOrder

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