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Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994.

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Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts.

Different, Kind, Nuts, Sexual, Thing, Way

Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

Asking, Future, Knows, Pointless

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

Funny, Inspirational, Pursuit, Stumble, Tourists, Travel

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

Capacity, Choices, Evil, Giving, Thing, Wrong

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

Assholes, Ems, Stink, Stories

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

Book, Might, Persuade, Planet, Today

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

Keep, Long, Make, Pain, Relief

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

Come, Ideas, People, Receptive

If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.

Fate, Lemon, Lemonade, Make, Sends, Use

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

Essentially, New Yorkers, Yorker

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'

Friend, Littles, Meaningful, People, Spend

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

Awful, Fiction, Life, Plan, Plans

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

Dark, Lie, Lying, Pass, Take, Writing

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

Important, Older, Private, Seems, Stuff

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

Build, Ifs, Mice, Mouse, Mousetrap, Nature

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

Come, Goes On, Sentences, Tried, Want, Writing

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.

Adversity, Care, Disheartened, Jobs, Persistence

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.

Book, Books, Desert, Islands, Telling, War

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

Change, People, People Don'T Change, Things, Things Change

Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.

Dinosaurs, Ems, Kill, Man, Men, Sick

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