"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."

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Source : Roundtable with Jon Meacham, www.newsweek.com. June 26, 2009.

Lawrence Block

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“I think every job that I've done to this point has had something new to challenge me.”

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“Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the universities for its support. They finance the poets and help them get published. That isn't so in China. But overall it is the same. You can't change society with poetry.”

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“Today, I'm proud and happy to say I'm very close to all the Bachchans, and Abhishek is like a sibling”
“My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.”
“Customers and contracts are like water and a sieve. The customer will find the largest hole and slide through it.”
“I'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever. ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all going to die, that is the end of all consciousness. There is no afterlife. There is no God. Now what do we do.' That's the point where it starts getting interesting to me.”
“A lot of things are going right. More is going right than wrong, for sure.”
“Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.”

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