Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little side altars were real ones, actual wax candles that burned with an open flame. Lots of churches have switched over to electrified altars. You drop your quarter in the slot and a flame-shaped bulb goes on and stays on for your quarter's worth of time. It's like a parking meter, and if you stay too long they tow away your soul.

Lawrence Block's Popular Quotes

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

- Lawrence Block

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a r…

- Lawrence Block

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

- Lawrence Block

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

- Lawrence Block

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

- Lawrence Block

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 …

- Lawrence Block

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

- Lawrence Block

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

- Lawrence Block

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 …

- Lawrence Block