Laura Lippman Quotes

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• 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 the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.

  Laura Lippman

  Real, Book, Serendipity

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• Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

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  Reading, Healing, Teens

  Laura Lippman (2009). “What the Dead Know: A Novel”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

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  People, Good Intentions, Dangerous

  Laura Lippman (2015). “The Last Place”, p.44, Faber & Faber

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• Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

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  Perfect, Resilience, Baltimore

  "Laura Lippman's Baltimore: Loving a Flawed Place". "Morning Edition" with John Ydstie and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. August 23, 2007.

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• The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald. He's wily, talented and-rarest of the rare-a true original. He writes melancholy poetry that actually has melancholy poets wandering around, but don't turn your backs on them, either. I am always eager to see what he's going to do next.

  Laura Lippman

  Eye, Writing, Mcdonalds

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• Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

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  Children, Parent, Miserable

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• 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.

  Laura Lippman

  Eating, Don't Trust, Cooks

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• 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 up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

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  Past, Knowing, Foundation

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• In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

  Laura Lippman

  Real, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• 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 about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.

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  Thinking, Facts, Lines

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• 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 library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.

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  Ignorance, Writing, Thinking

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• I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway Culver of Hancock County, Georgia, had 42 slaves, 31 "employed in agriculture." Culver was my great-great-great grandfather. I carry this piece of paper with me every day because I don't want to forget. I don't know what to do with the information, but I don't want to forget it.

  Laura Lippman

  Mother, Agriculture, Grandfather

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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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 deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.

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  Strong, Nice, Thinking

  Laura Lippman (2015). “Baltimore Blues”, p.146, Faber & Faber

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• I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

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  Morning, People, Likes

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.

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  Numbers, Infinite, Courses

  Laura Lippman (2011). “What the Dead Know”, p.59, Hachette UK

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• 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 them. Combine that quality with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.

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  Girl, Strong, Smart

  "By a Spider's Thread". Book by Laura Lippman, 2004.

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• 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 chosen this very conservative genre.

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  Thinking, Generations, Facts

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• 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 when it seems like it might be about to go over the edge of the world.

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  Wise, Sexy, Crazy

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

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  Uncles, Two, Daddy

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series.

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  Series

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

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  Bigger, Audience

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• ...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 I think he was essentially right.

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  War, Gay, Boys

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• 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 be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

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  Thinking, Talking, Cities

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• Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.

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  Jobs, Goes On, World

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

  Laura Lippman

  Kids, Different, Responsible

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