Lawrence Block

If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.

— Lawrence Block

“She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.”

— Lawrence Block

“that would have hidden the decades of filth that had left their stamp upon the wooden floor.”

— Lawrence Block

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you…

— Lawrence Block

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

— Lawrence Block

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

— Lawrence Block

“Your unconscious mind takes the things you can’t handle and plays with them while you sleep until some of the sharp corners…

— Lawrence Block

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

— Lawrence Block

Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were…

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I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

— Lawrence Block

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive…

— Lawrence Block

“My crime seemed destined to remain a secret forever.”

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“you have a better chance to get pregnant if you keep your knees way up and stay that way as long as…

— Lawrence Block

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

— Lawrence Block

Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.

— Lawrence Block

“Tomorrow’s always there, just over the horizon. Until the tomorrows run out.”

— Lawrence Block

Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.

— Lawrence Block

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

— Lawrence Block

“When the window turned dark, it was presumably night; when it grew blue again, I guessed that morning had come.”

— 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…

— Lawrence Block

I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than…

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“Martin Greer Galton had ceased troubling his fellow man in 1964, when a cerebral aneurysm achieved what most of his acquaintances and…

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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…

— Lawrence Block

“Hopper was neither an illustrator nor a narrative painter. His paintings don’t tell stories. What they do is suggest—powerfully, irresistibly—that there are…

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“I settled for a cup of coffee. Only it wasn't coffee. It was a coffee substitute made by grinding up dandelion roots.…

— Lawrence Block