110 Quotes by Lawrence Block

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

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.

Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

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.

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.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.