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.

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 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.

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