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
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.
book writing people
The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.
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.
coffee cups spoons
If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.
important stuff seems
When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.
pain long goes-on
And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.
stories ems stink
Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.
mother years giving
As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.
ideas people receptive
Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.
morning writing giving
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.
eye people ears
Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?
inspirational destiny discovery
Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.
hurt pain liars
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 bear it without it. But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.
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.