Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block
Lawrence Blockis an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 June 1938
CountryUnited States of America
waiting world knowing-god
It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.
long-ago enough persons
Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.
new-yorkers
I’ve always essentially been a New Yorker,
noir world way
I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.
fate use lemonade
If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.
meaningful people littles
As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'
mice ifs
If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.
evil giving choices
Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.
nuts way different
Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts.
few pages
I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don't want to go on.