Lawrence Block Quotes
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Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.
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Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.
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One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.
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Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.
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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.
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Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?
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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.
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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.
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If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.
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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.
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I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer’s job description. If you don’t care enough about it to avoid being easily disheartened that way, you really should be doing something else.
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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.
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And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.
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People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.
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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.
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If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.
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My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a man alive in Dublin who wasn't in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Twenty brave men marched into that post office, he said, and thirty thousand marched out.
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Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
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As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'
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If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little side altars were real ones, actual wax candles that burned with an open flame. Lots of churches have switched over to electrified altars. You drop your quarter in the slot and a flame-shaped bulb goes on and stays on for your quarter's worth of time. It's like a parking meter, and if you stay too long they tow away your soul.
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I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.
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Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.
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