110 Quotes by Lawrence Block

Women (don't) follow logic's rules when they (commit) adultery.

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.

She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.

Most people have trouble talking when they have nothing to say. Though it rarely stops them, does it?

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

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

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

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.