Laura Lippman

“Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're…

— Laura Lippman

People still struggle with this notion of gifted writers somehow being in touch with a higher power, but it's all about showing…

— Laura Lippman

Every person you meet has a story.

— Laura Lippman

If I waited to be inspired to go to the gym, I'd never get there. I schedule my exercise time; I schedule…

— Laura Lippman

“I hate to think how many minutes of my life I've spent on goddamn hold. I want those minutes back. When death…

— Laura Lippman

I've long believed that the work-out life has lessons for the writing life. I've 'solved' a lot of books while at the…

— Laura Lippman

...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble…

— Laura Lippman

“She was furious, with the kind of fury peculiar to the nonpaying client. Those who can't afford private attorneys . . .…

— Laura Lippman

We become comfortable saying that there's nothing new, and then something like Malarky comes along, which is new and old and different…

— Laura Lippman

My husband, David Simon, and I make our livings using our imaginations.

— Laura Lippman

I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place…

— Laura Lippman

Baltimore has been a punchline/punching bag for years - I've landed a few blows, to be fair - but those old jokes…

— Laura Lippman

“Working on the editorial page had sharpened Whitney's mind and coarsened her feelings, so she treated every subject as theoretical and abstract.…

— Laura Lippman

“There it was again, another strange usage. 'We had words.' Everyone has words...What a useless euphemism. The phrases that people used to…

— Laura Lippman

I don't know where my phone is half the time.

— Laura Lippman

My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.

— Laura Lippman

“Kay came to realize that she preferred her books to other people’s company. Reading was not a fallback position for her but…

— Laura Lippman

I'm very empathetic - that might be one of my superpowers.

— Laura Lippman

The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under…

— Laura Lippman

I never knew how passive-aggressive people could be until I became a parent. Or even aggressive-aggressive. It actually began before I had…

— Laura Lippman

The verbs that are used for people who write quickly are almost never flattering.

— Laura Lippman

Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary…

— Laura Lippman

There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child…

— Laura Lippman

“Just because you worked hard on something didn’t make it worth doing.”

— Laura Lippman

As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the…

— Laura Lippman