Laura Lippman Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
• 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…
• I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
• I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
• It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
• I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd…
• 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…
• Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
• There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up…
• Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

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