"Throw out that fucking copy of Finnegans Wake you’re always carrying around and go read Donald E. Westlake. He’ll teach you everything you need to know about writing fiction."
— Donald E. Westlake

January 1, 1970

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Harlan Ellison, as quoted by Scott Bradfield, in "Donald E. Westlake: The Writer’s Writer’s Writer". The Los Angeles Review of Books, August 22, 2017.