Donald E. Westlake: Writing

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“Stark doesn't write very much like Westlake at all.”

Donald E. Westlake

Blogcritics interview (2007)
Context: I've used pseudonyms for various reasons. In my earliest days I was writing too much, and needed to shift some of the product over to other front men. I've also done it to establish the different tones of the different writings: Stark doesn't write very much like Westlake at all.

“It was apparent… that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said, 'I can write better than that!' It was amazing how many of them were wrong.”

Donald E. Westlake

Dancing Aztecs (1976)

People , Books

“I was once — and only once — asked if I could have had a writing career without the movies. That stopped me, and I was very happy to have to think about it, and decide I knew the answer. Yes; not this career, but a career. Without movie money, either from writing screenplays or selling rights to novels, I could still have enough of a career that I could support myself and not have to work at some other job, but it would be, shall we say, a less lavish lifestyle.”

Donald E. Westlake

Blogcritics interview (2007)

Money , Support , Thinking , Happiness