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'
book writing people
The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.
ideas people receptive
Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.
eye people ears
Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?
country new-york people
I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.
people things-change people-dont-change
People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.
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.