If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.
Donald E. WestlakeEverybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.
Donald E. WestlakeIf your subject is crime, then you know at least that you're going to have a real story. If your subject is the maturing of a college boy, you may never stumble across a story while you're telling that. But if your story is a college boy dead in his dorm room, you know there's a story in there, someplace.
Donald E. Westlake