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Continue to ChatI was writing everything. I grew up in Albany, New York, and I was never any farther west than Syracuse, and I wrote Westerns. I wrote tiny little slices of life, sent them off to The Sewanee Review, and they always sent them back. For the first 10 years I was published, I'd say, "I'm a writer disguised as a mystery writer." But then I look back, and well, maybe I'm a mystery writer. You tend to go where you're liked, so when the mysteries were being published, I did more of them. - Donald E. Westlake from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/i-was-writing-everything-i-grew-up-in-albany-new-york-and-i-was-never-any-farther-west-than-syracuse-and-i