110 Quotes by Lawrence Block

Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he’d come to realize, was a forgiving nature.

It’s the easiest thing in the world to know God’s will. You just wait and see what happens, and that’s it.

I looked down into my glass. It held club soda, but the way I was gazing into it you’d have thought it was filled with something stronger. I used to stare like that into glasses of whiskey, as if they contained coded answers. All they did was dissolve the questions, but there was a time when that was enough.

It was still there, a low-grade fever in the blood, an itch somewhere down beneath the skin, where you couldn’t scratch it.

The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on. Nor all your piety and wit Can call it back to cancel half a line Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.

He was always inclined to be a moody man, very exuberant when things were going right, very depressed when they weren’t.

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...

Many of us may not know too much about our characters, but we tell the reader altogether too much.

Being broke is not a crime, nor is it proof of one’s inadequacy as a writer or as a human being. If you go around with an attitude of implicit apology for being temporarily without funds, it’s going to do you more harm than good.