The writer is an infantryman. He knows that progress is measured in yards of dirt extracted from the enemy one day, one hour, one minute at a time and paid for in blood. The artist wears combat boots.

Similarly, the idea of putting pressure on ourselves to strive for our goals now so that we can feel the rush of reaching them later is as bizarre and misguided a life strategy as hitting ourselves in the face because it fells good when we stop.

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren&#39;t so nearly universal, God knows what I&#39;d be. A drain on the State, I shouldn&#39;t wonder.

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

If it weren&#39;t for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn&#39;t have any ideas at all.

Donald E. Westlake

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Written By Donald E. Westlake

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