Noir Quote of the Week #12

Lawrence Block (via tirbd.com)

“Burglary, I thought, and the more I thought the more I liked it.It seemed somehow akin to writing— you set your own hours, you avoided human contact, and, if you were successful, you managed to touch the lives of people you never even met.”

-Lawrence Block, Introduction to The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (1999)

(thanks noirboiled.blogspot.com for the noir quote!)