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.
mice ifs
If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.
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.