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.
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.
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...