Donald E. Westlake Quotes

Story Ideas Had Never Been A Problem For Him, There'd Always Been More Ideas Than Time To Write Them, He'd Reject One Perfectly Good Notion Because He Fell More Simpatico Toward A Different One. But Of Course He Could Never Go Back To Any Of Those Ancient Story Stubs, They Wouldn't Still Have Juice In Them.

For Him, Creating A Novel Was Like Gardening; You Choose Your Seed, You Treat It Exactly The Way The Package Says, And Gradually A Thing Of Beauty - Or Of Sturdiness, Or Of Nutrition - Grows Up And Becomes Yours. The Seed You Don't Nurture Doesn't Wait To Be Doted Over Later; It Shrivels And Dies.

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