Flattering Quote by Laura Lippman Download Open image “The verbs that are used for people who write quickly are almost never flattering.” — Laura Lippman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Flattering Never People Used Who Writing
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
I used to joke about this but I've recently realized that I really believe it: I spent many years training myself to write very… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. — Robert Asprin 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… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“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,… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
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
The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
You know, they always say that the photographer is a hunter of images. That is a flattering image, the idea of a hunter, it's… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
I had to smile when stories emerged questioning whether I was gay. Obviously I knew I wasn't but people were curiously desperate to suggest… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
It's absolutely fun to walk around and have people respect you. When Michael Jackson did Thriller, I was in the park one day, and… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
It's flattering that there are lots of Internet fan sites about me. I'm a bit of a technophobe and I don't even own a… — Jonas Armstrong Copy Share Image
It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
