Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman
Laura Lippmanis an American author of detective fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 January 1959
CountryUnited States of America
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.
book challenges
I begin each book with a challenge to myself.
wise sexy crazy
We become comfortable saying that there's nothing new, and then something like Malarky comes along, which is new and old and different and familiar, but ultimately itself, comfortable in its own skin, wise and smart and crazy-sexy or maybe sexy-crazy-well, you just have to read it to understand. It's a novel that sets its own course, sure and steady, even when it seems like it might be about to go over the edge of the world.
children math odds
There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.
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.
thinking talking cities
I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.
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.
bigger audience
I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.
children parent miserable
Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.