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
travel adventure backpacking
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
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.
inspirational destiny discovery
Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.
eye people ears
Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?
stories ems stink
Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.
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.