"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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Source : The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 6, 2001.

Donald E. Westlake

#Looks Quotes #Notes Quotes #Make Sense Quotes

“Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.”
“Dead bodies are such trouble,â€ Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.”
“I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.”
“For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.”
“God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.”
“You need a bad operation. Gimme the scissors, hammer, flame.”
“I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.”
“I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.”

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