Source: Gotham Central, Book One: In the Line of Duty
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Famous Lawrence Block Quotes
Source: Grifter's Game
“Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.”
Source: Dark City Lights: New York Short Stories
Source: The Sins of the Fathers
Source: Grifter's Game
Source: Grifter's Game
“Being dead means never having to do anything sneaky.”
Source: Burglars Can't Be Choosers
“And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.”
Source: Telling Lies for fun and Profit
Source: Out On The Cutting Edge
“If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.”
Source: Everybody Dies
Source: Afterthoughts
Source: Even the wicked: a Matthew Scudder novel
“Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.”
“Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.”
“If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.”
Source: The Thief who Couldn't Sleep
Source: Writing the Novel from Plot to Print
Source: The Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries: Volume Two
Source: In the Midst of Death
“I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.”
“When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.”
“Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?”