Lawrence Block

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

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

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

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.