Lawrence Block

“The Turks have dreary jails.”

— Lawrence Block

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

— Lawrence Block

“all six of them a license.” “That”

— Lawrence Block

Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

— Lawrence Block

“Everybody has mean little places inside himself.”

— Lawrence Block

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

— Lawrence Block

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

— Lawrence Block

“I don’t sleep, have not slept in sixteen years—”

— Lawrence Block

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

— Lawrence Block

“You don’t sleep. You’re thirty-four years old and lost the power to sleep when you were eighteen. Is”

— 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

“there is no better way to learn how to write than by writing a novel.”

— Lawrence Block

“It's enough of a strain killing people. I've no time for deer. --Mick Ballou”

— Lawrence Block

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

— Lawrence Block

“You show up at these meetings to stay sober and you walk out with a fucking education.”

— Lawrence Block

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

— Lawrence Block

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…

— Lawrence Block

Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know…

— Lawrence Block

“The Players are gentlemen,” he’d intoned, “pretending to be actors. The Lambs are actors, pretending to be gentlemen. And the Friars—the Friars…

— 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

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want…

— Lawrence Block

“We're all whirling merrily through the void on a dying planet, and gay people are just doing their usual number, being shamelessly…

— Lawrence Block

I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer’s job description. If you don’t care enough…

— Lawrence Block

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it…

— Lawrence Block

“Everybody tells me what a timesaver the Internet is, and how they can't believe they ever got along without it. And I…

— Lawrence Block

“Breakfast was always a slab of cold black toast and a cup of thick black coffee. Lunch and dinner were always the…

— Lawrence Block

“You know, it was a revelation to me to learn that I don't have to be comfortable. Nowhere is it written that…

— Lawrence Block

“She knew how much I needed her. And now she was teasing, playing games. I looked at her and watched her turn…

— Lawrence Block

“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

“I went into the bathroom and caught sight of my reflection in the mirror over the sink. All my years looked back…

— Lawrence Block

“Around one-thirty it started raining lightly. Almost immediately the umbrella sellers turned up on the streetcorners. You'd have thought they had existed…

— Lawrence Block

One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five…

— Lawrence Block

“I thought I'd go home and reread Sue Grafton. It's been a while since I last read the one about the topless…

— Lawrence Block

I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for…

— Lawrence Block

“My glass was empty. I poured more scotch into it, took a small sip, and all at once the silly thing was…

— Lawrence Block

“Your mother spreads herself for camels.”

— Lawrence Block

“Novels are written—as life is lived—One Day At A Time.”

— Lawrence Block

“When rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it.”

— Lawrence Block

“He’d disposed of her corpse by feeding it to the hogs.”

— Lawrence Block

I’ve always essentially been a New Yorker,

— Lawrence Block