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.
eye people ears
Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?
pain long goes-on
And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.
morning writing giving
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.
writing thinking next
I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.
war book numbers
Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you'll want on that desert island.
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.
sex young booze
Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.
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.
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.