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.
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.
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.
running tape adore
I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.
singers taste female
As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.