The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers … - Donald E. Westlake

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I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

Donald E. Westlake

The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed.

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A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

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My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.

Days, Schedules, Trying, Week, Years

In the first batch of readers, back in the '60s and '70s, the criminal class was still literate, so I would get letters from people in prison; they thought that I was somebody whom they could shop-talk with, and they would tell me very funny stories. I got a lot of those. Guys who were going to wind up doing 10 to 15 for bank robbery, yes, were reading my books.

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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.

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What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering. " (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked. )

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I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

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I went to the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and you're not allowed to watch TV.

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I thought I was the last American weirdo then I met Chris Chandler.

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