“New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some of them existing on different continents, some of them existing in different centuries, and many of them at war with one another. English is not the primary language in many of these villages, but the Roman alphabet does still have a slight edge.” WayDoeStillsDifferentWarLanguageCitiesCenturyNew YorkEdgesPrimariesNeighborhoodVillageContinentsAlphabet Book:What's So Funny? Source: What's So Funny?
“Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.” WayShowsTogetherCaringTiesStrongestThreadSimplestWovenTies That Bind Author:Donald E. Westlake
“Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.” PeopleWayShowsTogetherStruggleOur LivesCaringListsChristmasWeatherAliensTiesStrongestAtomsShoppingThreadSimplestInvitationsNot AloneDecemberWovenAggravationBad WeatherTies That BindPeople In Our Lives Author:Donald E. Westlake
“In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by the words they use. Writing begins with language, and it is in that initial choosing, as one sifts through the wayward lushness of our wonderful mongrel English, that choice of vocabulary and grammar and tone, the selection on the palette, that determines who's sitting at that desk. Language creates the writer's attitude toward the particular story he's decided to tell.” WayWritingStoriesUseChoicesLanguageRaceAttitudeWonderfulParticularSittingDecidedDetermineGenderDefinedToneDesksVocabularySelectionGrammarInitialsPalette Book:The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany Source: The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany
