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Top 70 Lawrence Block Quotes (2025 Update)
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Lawrence Block Quote: “Well, you live and you learn, and generally in that order. I.”

51. “Well, you live and you learn, and generally in that order. I.”

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “Being dead means never having to do anything sneaky.”

52. “Being dead means never having to do anything sneaky.”

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “I haven’t seen her in five years. Well, hell, I haven’t had a cigarette in twelve, and I damn well wanted one for a minute there. Sometimes I don’t think anybody ever gets over anything.”

53. “I haven’t seen her in five years. Well, hell, I haven’t had a cigarette in twelve, and I damn well wanted one for a minute there. Sometimes I don’t think anybody ever gets over anything.”

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.”

54. “Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.”

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “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.”

55. “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.”

— Lawrence Block

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

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

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “When writing functions in this fashion as self-directed psychotherapy, we err if we demand that people be entertained and enlightened by the process.”

57. “When writing functions in this fashion as self-directed psychotherapy, we err if we demand that people be entertained and enlightened by the process.”

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “I don’t plan an awful lot in life just as I don’t plan an awful lot in my fiction.”

58. “I don’t plan an awful lot in life just as I don’t plan an awful lot in my fiction.”

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “Imaginative persons could probably find interesting things to do with handcuffs and a nightstick.”

59. “Imaginative persons could probably find interesting things to do with handcuffs and a nightstick.”

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “Many of us may not know too much about our characters, but we tell the reader altogether too much.”

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

— Lawrence Block

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

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

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “I don’t know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.”

62. “I don’t know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.”

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “So many changes, eating away at the world like water dripping on a rock.”

63. “So many changes, eating away at the world like water dripping on a rock.”

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “Hopper was neither an illustrator nor a narrative painter. His paintings don’t tell stories. What they do is suggest – powerfully, irresistibly – that there are stories within them, waiting to be told. He shows us a moment in time, arrayed on a canvas; there’s clearly a past and a future, but it’s our task to find it for ourselves.”

65. “Hopper was neither an illustrator nor a narrative painter. His paintings don’t tell stories. What they do is suggest – powerfully, irresistibly – that there are stories within them, waiting to be told. He shows us a moment in time, arrayed on a canvas; there’s clearly a past and a future, but it’s our task to find it for ourselves.”

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “Life, I announced, is not a B picture. Well, it ain’t no De Mille epic either, boss. Things’ll work out, Bernie.”

66. “Life, I announced, is not a B picture. Well, it ain’t no De Mille epic either, boss. Things’ll work out, Bernie.”

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he’d come to realize, was a forgiving nature.”

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

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “They’ve transformed the weather into some sort of celestial crap game.”

68. “They’ve transformed the weather into some sort of celestial crap game.”

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “If you are lying, you have built your lie on true foundations.”

69. “If you are lying, you have built your lie on true foundations.”

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “It took a while to tell but it hadn’t taken all that long to live;.”

70. “It took a while to tell but it hadn’t taken all that long to live;.”

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “Wasn’t it Will Rogers who said he never met a man he didn’t like?” “Whoever it was, I’d say he didn’t get out much.”

71. “Wasn’t it Will Rogers who said he never met a man he didn’t like?” “Whoever it was, I’d say he didn’t get out much.”

— Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block Quote: “If you are trying to write realistic fiction and you people it extensively with overdrawn characters, you’re working against yourself. You can occasionally get away with filling books and stories with grotesques, but unless your name’s Carson McCullers it gets tricky. A less obvious form of caricature consists of giving an otherwise ordinary character a trait or attribute or mannerism on which the reader may focus his attention.”

72. “If you are trying to write realistic fiction and you people it extensively with overdrawn characters, you’re working against yourself. You can occasionally get away with filling books and stories with grotesques, but unless your name’s Carson McCullers it gets tricky. A less obvious form of caricature consists of giving an otherwise ordinary character a trait or attribute or mannerism on which the reader may focus his attention.”

— Lawrence Block

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