“We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off.”
―
Mark Lawrence,
King of Thorns
“Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for. ” ― Lawrence Block
“Fuck you! I hope you die!""Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you.” ― Lawrence Block, Everybody Dies
“If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.” ― Lawrence Block
“I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it.But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.” ― Lawrence Block, Out on the Cutting Edge
“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.” ― Lawrence Block, Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print
“She knew how much I needed her. And now she was teasing, playing games. I looked at her and watched her turn into a sex symbol in front of my eyes. She did not look sweet and virginal and lovely anymore. I looked at the very simple summer dress and saw breasts and belly and hips. I looked at her eyes and saw lust as naked as my own.” ― Lawrence Block, Grifter's Game
“Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.” ― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers
“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
“Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.” ― Lawrence Block
“Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.” ― Lawrence Block, A Dance At The Slaughterhouse
“Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.” ― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers
“We turned out to be good for each other. For a stitch of time all the hard questions went away and hid in dark places.” ― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers
“People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.” ― Lawrence Block, In the Midst of Death
“You show up at these meetings to stay sober and you walk out with a fucking education.” ― Lawrence Block, A Drop of the Hard Stuff
“...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly." (quoted from Write for Your Live by Lawrence Block)” ― Ralph Keyes, The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear
“I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.” ― Lawrence Block, The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
“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, In the Midst of Death
“It's enough of a strain killing people. I've no time for deer.--Mick Ballou” ― Lawrence Block, Everybody Dies
“Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for. ” ― Lawrence Block
“Fuck you! I hope you die!""Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you.” ― Lawrence Block, Everybody Dies
“If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.” ― Lawrence Block
“I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it.But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.” ― Lawrence Block, Out on the Cutting Edge
“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.” ― Lawrence Block, Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print
“She knew how much I needed her. And now she was teasing, playing games. I looked at her and watched her turn into a sex symbol in front of my eyes. She did not look sweet and virginal and lovely anymore. I looked at the very simple summer dress and saw breasts and belly and hips. I looked at her eyes and saw lust as naked as my own.” ― Lawrence Block, Grifter's Game
“Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.” ― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers
“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
“Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.” ― Lawrence Block
“Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.” ― Lawrence Block, A Dance At The Slaughterhouse
“Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.” ― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers
“We turned out to be good for each other. For a stitch of time all the hard questions went away and hid in dark places.” ― Lawrence Block, The Sins of the Fathers
“People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.” ― Lawrence Block, In the Midst of Death
“You show up at these meetings to stay sober and you walk out with a fucking education.” ― Lawrence Block, A Drop of the Hard Stuff
“...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly." (quoted from Write for Your Live by Lawrence Block)” ― Ralph Keyes, The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear
“I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.” ― Lawrence Block, The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
“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, In the Midst of Death
“It's enough of a strain killing people. I've no time for deer.--Mick Ballou” ― Lawrence Block, Everybody Dies
