Books Quote by Laura Lippman Download Open image “Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.” — Laura Lippman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Both Cultivate Fiction Needs Should Writing
Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances! — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it. — Alan Cheuse Copy Share Image
Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings,… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
People still struggle with this notion of gifted writers somehow being in touch with a higher power, but it's all about showing up and… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
If I waited to be inspired to go to the gym, I'd never get there. I schedule my exercise time; I schedule my work… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“I hate to think how many minutes of my life I've spent on goddamn hold. I want those minutes back. When death comes for… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
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 gym, in… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
...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… — Laura Lippman Copy Share
“She was furious, with the kind of fury peculiar to the nonpaying client. Those who can't afford private attorneys . . . assumed legal… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
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… — Laura Lippman Copy Share
My husband, David Simon, and I make our livings using our imaginations. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
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… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Baltimore has been a punchline/punching bag for years - I've landed a few blows, to be fair - but those old jokes are out… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
