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
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...
lying writing dark
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.
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.
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.
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.
few pages
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.
men maturity years
Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.
nuts way different
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.
mean cat elk
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.
evil giving choices
Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.
awful fiction plans
I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.
asking knows pointless
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.
new-york dirty home
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.