Donald E. Westlake Quotes

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.

Donald E. Westlake

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GodMeWonderNothingUpAnything

I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

Jim Brown

FootballThinkEnoughNewUnion

Energy cogeneration on Capitol Hill makes economic and environmental sense and should be pursued for those reasons.

Ander Crenshaw

EnvironmentalEnergyHillEconomic

Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time.

Ruth Ozeki

TimeWritingWorldI CanHardZen

The Left can play the race card incessantly without consequence or punishment, but woe to anyone else who even breathes valid opposition to their policies: Thou shall be deemed a racist.

Monica Crowley

PlayRacePunishmentWithoutLeft

I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.

Loretta Napoleoni

SchoolSmallHigh SchoolPolitical

I grew up around a whole bunch of girls, and one thing I realized is what they had on their plate was very different than what I had on mine. The things girls are made to be responsible for is a heavy burden - take care of your younger siblings, do good in school, have some extracurriculars. The pressure is intense.

Jason Reynolds

GoodSchoolCarePressureTake Care

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

LifeEndDetailsI CanKnowMy Own

The general effect of viewing 'Jumanji' is thrilling. I was able to see on film a thing that at one point had only existed in my imagination. I got to see the images from my book come alive.

Chris Van Allsburg

ImaginationBookAliveSeePoint

I needed to see if I could have fun in a project again, and 'Riverdale' was a project that ended up looking like a tonne of fun.

Cole Sprouse

FunLookingHave FunProjectSeeUp

I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.

Prince

YouPlayKnowSameUpConcert

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

Scilla Elworthy

FearEnergyFatYouDownTalk

If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover.

Maria Menounos

StartYouCountryNewsWantMore

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