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
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'
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.
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.
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.
awful fiction plans
I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.
way exaggeration my-way
To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.
writing stories world
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...
book might today
I can’t persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me,
writing want pages
I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.
mice ifs
If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.
fate use lemonade
If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.
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.
order serendipity mind
One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.