Hunting Buffalo With Bent Nails Quotes

“One of the many reasons New York is such a splendid city for writers is that one is constantly in contact with one’s fellow citizens. In most of the rest of the country, people spend all their in-between time in cars. They listen to their radios or natter away on their cell phones—or, alas, both—and they’re effectively insulated from everything going on around them. If a Los Angeleno’s SUV is a culturally sterile environment, a New York subway is a veritable Petri dish, swarming”
― Lawrence Block, Hunting Buffalo With Bent Nails

“not Small Town turns out to be what New Yorkers want to read, it is very definitely the book this New Yorker needed to write. It is, I came to realize, a post-apocalyptic novel set in New York in the summer of 2002. We’ve had our apocalypse, and we’re New Yorkers, and we’re moving on.”
― Lawrence Block, Hunting Buffalo With Bent Nails