Donald E. Westlake Quotes

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.

Donald E. Westlake

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WritingLearnYouPageChessMaster

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

Jimmy Carl Black

RoadThinkMothersStuffI Think

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

Jerry Cantrell

TogetherEffortGuitarThoughtful

At my shows, I like everyone to have a good time... but, I like for us to be real because there's freedom in that.

Andra Day

GoodFreedomTimeRealEveryoneUs

The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.

John Lasseter

HeartSoulDoorsKindNeverCompany

People are either born hosts or born guests.

Max Beerbohm

PeopleBornGuestsEitherHosts

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

Anjelica Huston

MenFightMeDoingEnoughMovies

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

Alva Myrdal

MenRootsStrongPoliticalCreate

I'll never forget travelling to New Zealand for three months to make the 'Underworld' films - that was pretty special.

Steven Mackintosh

Never ForgetNewForgetThreeNever

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

Sun Myung Moon

GreatMeWorldDownFoolishCause

No migrant of any religion has a constitutional right to come to the United States.

Tom Tancredo

ReligionRightUnitedComeMigrant

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.

Robert Fripp

EndYouDownMeetOrchestraRailway

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

GoodChildrenTimeArchitectureYou

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