Lawrence Block Quotes

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

Lawrence Block

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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

Pat Benatar
- Up
- Time
- Trying
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

Harold Brodkey
- People
- Long
- True
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

Saint Teresa of Avila
- Soul
- Black
- Water
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

Sade Adu
- People
- Music
- Song
When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.

Walter Mosley
- Time
- Thinking
- Done
Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it.

Karisma Kapoor
- Feeling
- Woman
- Training