Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman
Laura Lippmanis an American author of detective fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 January 1959
CountryUnited States of America
reading healing teens
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
people good-intentions dangerous
There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.
perfect resilience baltimore
Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
morning people likes
I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.
eating dont-trust cooks
There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.
writing ignorance thinking
Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.
kids different responsible
It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
series
I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series.
careers stuff hard
I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
kids college people
I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
want longing moments
Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.
numbers infinite courses
There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.
gestures ifs magnanimous
how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?
uncles two grandparent
My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.