Elinor Lipman Quotes
- It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced…
- I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but…
- I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
- I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.
- I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.
- My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.
- An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out…
- Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and…