10 Quotes & Sayings By Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block is one of the most popular mystery writers in the world. He has sold more than fifty million books in twenty languages. His books have been made into films, television series, and theater productions. He is the author of the Matt Scudder series, which includes Over My Dead Body, A Walk in the Sun, The Promise, Final Disgrace, and The Third Watch Read more

He has written dozens of other novels in various genres including romantic suspense, crime fiction, thrillers, horror fiction, science fiction, comic mysteries, historical mysteries, legal thrillers, and humorous mysteries starring his own quirky private eye character Matt Scudder.

Fuck you! I hope you die!
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Fuck you! I hope you die! "" Everybody Dies, " I said. "So fuck you. Lawrence Block
If you want to write fiction, the best thing you...
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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. Lawrence Block
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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. . Lawrence Block
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Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature. Lawrence Block
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The New Your energy goes beyond anything you'll find anywhere else. It's too much for some people and it grinds them down, but it lifts up and animates the rest of us. Lawrence Block
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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... Lawrence Block
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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. Lawrence Block
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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. Lawrence Block
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Being dead means never having to do anything sneaky. Lawrence Block