Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman
Laura Lippmanis an American author of detective fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 January 1959
CountryUnited States of America
jobs goes-on world
Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.
series
I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series.
running tape adore
I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.
uncles two grandparent
My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.
want longing moments
Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.
careers stuff hard
I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
kids different responsible
It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
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.
smart luck lucky
it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.
selfishness size stinginess
stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.
real book thinking
In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.
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?
war gay boys
...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.