I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.
I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me. - Lawrence Block
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
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…
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
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.
Ideas come to people who are receptive to them. - Lawrence Block
Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.
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
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 …
If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse. - Lawrence Block
If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.
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
One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.
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
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 …
If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak. - Lawrence Block
If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.
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