“My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a man alive in Dublin who wasn't in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Twenty brave men marched into that post office, he said, and thirty thousand marched out.” MenWorldSaidUsedMotherFatherAliveThousandOfficeTwentiesBraveHardestPostsThirtyRisingEasterHardest ThingBrave ManDublinPost Office Book:Out On The Cutting Edge Source: Out On The Cutting Edge
“It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.” KnowsWorldHappensWaitingGods WillKnowing God Book:Even the wicked: a Matthew Scudder novel Source: Even the wicked: a Matthew Scudder novel
“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.” WorldShouldWritingLittlesStoriesTodayEconomicLaborShort StoryIncentivesLabor Of Love Author:Lawrence Block
“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.” IfsWorldWayNeedsUseSeemsNoir Author:Lawrence Block