It's so difficult, particularly with an antisocial character. It's much easier if he's already a blank page, but once you've written on him, it's hard to keep him that stripped down.
Donald E. WestlakeChristmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.
Donald E. WestlakeI don't think I would have been a good architect. Really, I have thought about this from time to time, and I might have wound up like my father, who never did find that which he could devote his life to. He sort of drifted from job to job. He was a traveling salesman, he was a bookkeeper, he was an office manager, he was here, there, there. And however enthusiastic he was at the beginning, his job would bore him. If I hadn't had the writing, I think I might have replicated what he was doing, which would not have been good.
Donald E. WestlakeEverybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.
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