Lawrence Block Quotes
Top 59 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.
We turned out to be good for each other. For a stitch of time all the hard questions went away and hid in dark places.
WHEN you hit a gay bar in the middle of a weekday afternoon you wonder why they don't call it something else.
I find him whelming, personally. Neither overwhelming nor underwhelming but somewhere in the middle.
People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.
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.
It was still there, a low-grade fever in the blood, an itch somewhere down beneath the skin, where you couldn't scratch it.
Forcible sodomy and illegal entry, you put them both down and you get a jury confused. They figure it's two ways of saying the same thing.
He was always inclined to be a moody man, very exuberant when things were going right, very depressed when they weren't.
I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.
One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.
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.
When writing functions in this fashion as self-directed psychotherapy, we err if we demand that people be entertained and enlightened by the process.
Your unconscious mind takes the things you can't handle and plays with them while you sleep until some of the sharp corners are worn off.
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.
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.
Come on in," Elaine said. "She's already here. Pam, this is Mr. Scudder, Matthew Scudder. Matt, I'd like you to meet Pam.
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.
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.
Life, I announced, is not a B picture. Well, it ain't no De Mille epic either, boss. Things'll work out, Bernie.