Lawrence Block Quotes

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

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.

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.

I’ve always essentially been a New Yorker.

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