Quotes by Lawrence Block

About Lawrence Block:

Lawrence Block is 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.
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Fuck you! I hope you die!" "Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you.

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The New Your energy goes beyond anything you'll find anywhere else. It's too much for some people and it grinds them down, but it lifts up and animates the rest of us.

Lawrence Block

Being dead means never having to do anything sneaky.

Lawrence Block

I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.

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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...

Lawrence Block

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

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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.

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I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

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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.

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I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

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When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

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I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

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Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

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I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't...

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New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

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Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

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I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameLawrence Block
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJune 24, 1938
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsEdgar Award