"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

#Character Quotes #Choices Quotes #Conscious Quotes

“I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
“I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.”
“So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law - as it has been for years - that's not a shock. Democratic beliefs to the contrary are probably wishful thinking.”
“They weren't true stories; they were better than that.”
“Whatever we saw in October 1941, cannot be compared to anything that we had seen prior, when our forces retreated from the Dniepr borders. Now, things like this no longer happen. Now, we can frown by ourselves.”

Source : "I. C. Bagramyan: A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal", Yerevan, 1987.
“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.”
“I will not enter into a public feud with Madame Callas, since I am well aware that she has considerably greater competence and experience at that kind of thing than I have.”
“Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.”

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