Donald E. Westlake Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: July 12, 1933 - December 31, 2008
Birthday: July 12
Death: December 31
In the first batch of readers, back in the '60s and '70s, the criminal class was still literate, so I would get letters from people in prison; they thought that I was somebody whom they could shop-talk with, and they would tell me very funny stories. I got a lot of those. Guys who were going to wind up doing 10 to 15 for bank robbery, yes, were reading my books.
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