Afterthoughts Quotes

“Some months after that, Markham was published, subtitle and all, and the first I knew of it was when I got a phone call late one night from a writer friend of mine named Randall P. Garrett. Now Randy lived substantially less than a mile from us, around 110th Street and Broadway, and when he wasn’t home working he was around the corner in a neighborhood”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“The book was How to Write a Novel, by Manuel Komroff; a professor at Columbia University, he was a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction. His book, published in 1950, is available from used booksellers for between $10 and $25.”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“I might add that one short novel of Schnitzler’s, Casanova’s Homecoming, was on the shelves of my parents’ library, and I had the great good fortune to read it at an impressionable age.”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“I’d read Skid Row U.S.A., by Sara Harris,”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“wrote it in the summer of 1959 in my furnished room at the Hotel Rio, on West Forty-Seventh Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues.”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“was published: Babe in the Woods, a Lou Largo Novel by William Ard. John Jakes, who”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“September I arrived at Antioch College”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“In June of 1955 I graduated from Bennett High School in Buffalo, New York. The school was named after one Lewis J. Bennett, and you now know as much about the man as I ever did. Having one’s name on something enduring—a school, a bridge, a building—is thought to provide immortality of a sort, but if that’s immortality, well, I’m with”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“Caricatures, a coffee house on Macdougal with a batch of caricatures in the window, along with a signed note from Maxwell Bodenheim, the archetypical Village bohemian who’d been murdered a few years earlier.”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“There’d been a big fat bestseller a few years earlier called The Devil in Bucks County, and I’m sure the Berkley folks were aware of it. They probably had it in mind when they made the deal. The title I suggested was The Trouble with Bucks County, and they used half of it. The Trouble with Eden—well, it’s not a bad title.”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“Jill Emerson’s career began with a pair of lesbian novels, the first written in 1964 in an office in Tonawanda, New York, at the intersection of Colvin Boulevard and Eggert Road (where Jill got her mail), the second a year later in my home office on the second floor of a side-by-side duplex at 4051 Marquette Drive, in Racine, Wisconsin. The books are Warm and Willing and Enough of Sorrow, and they’re available as e-books. Each includes an afterword detailing how they came to be written.”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“thought of writing a lesbian novel. I read a great deal of lesbian fiction and nonfiction, some by Marijane Meaker under one name or another. I’m sure I read them in part out of prurient interest, but that’s why I initially read John O’Hara, James T. Farrell, and no end of fine writers.”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“was now living on Haven Avenue, in Washington Heights,”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“And various bibliographic sources agree that “Like a Thief in the Night” appeared in the May 1983 edition of Cosmopolitan. But I’ve never been able to confirm this. I don’t think it ever appeared in a magazine.”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“seem to be the only person to have used the name Ben Christopher on a book. Strange, innit? Strange Embrace”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“what the hell did I care about Paradise Lost or Humphrey Clinker, let alone The Development of Physical Ideas?”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“The book probably owes a little to The Tooth and the Nail, by Bill S. Ballinger, a fine writer who’s pretty much forgotten these”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“David Maurer’s nonfiction work The Big Con.”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0

“New Brunswick, New Jersey, where I had to cut off two of its feet to get it upstairs to my third-floor office at 16 Stratford Place. There, for all I know, it remains to this day.)”
― Lawrence Block, Afterthoughts: Version 2.0