“A grifter's got an irresistible urge to be the guy who's wise. There's nothin' to whipping a fool. Hell, fools are made to be whipped. But to take another pro. Even your partner, who knows you and has his eye on you. That's a score! No matter what happens.” KnowsMadeMatterHappensEyeGuyHellWiseCrimeFoolBehaviorNo Matter WhatPartnersHis EyesScoreUrgesCheatingIrresistibleWhipping Author:Donald E. Westlake
“Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great self-assurance that they don't know how to do their jobs. "I don't know how to sell this," they explain, frowning, as though it's your fault. "I don't know how to package this. I don't know what the market is for this book. I don't know how we're going to draw attention to this." In most occupations, people try to hide their incompetence; only in publishing is it flaunted as though it were the chief qualification for the job.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingI CanBookSelfJobsAttentionKnow HowIndustryDrawsSellsFaultsChiefsEmployeeOccupationPublishingAssurancePackagesIncompetenceQualificationsFrowningSelf Assurance Author:Donald E. Westlake
“Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.” IfsKnowsStatesStoriesWonderUniversalLiteracyGod KnowsDrainsMaking Up Author:Donald E. Westlake
