Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman
Laura Lippmanis an American author of detective fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 January 1959
CountryUnited States of America
careers stuff hard
I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
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.
new-york attitude past
I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New York Times article on the subject of modern attitudes toward our slave-holding past, the writer noted that we all want to be from "innocent origins." I _know_ I'm not. Then again, I suspect most of us are not.
strong nice thinking
It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.
want longing moments
Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.
mother agriculture grandfather
I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway Culver of Hancock County, Georgia, had 42 slaves, 31 "employed in agriculture." Culver was my great-great-great grandfather. I carry this piece of paper with me every day because I don't want to forget. I don't know what to do with the information, but I don't want to forget it.
girl strong smart
She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.
kids different responsible
It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
thinking lines facts
But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.
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.
past knowing foundation
The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.