Lawrence Block — American Writer born on June 24, 1938,

Lawrence Block is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994... (wikipedia)

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.
Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?
I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.