“I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.”
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Source: Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
“Stark doesn't write very much like Westlake at all.”
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.
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