16 Laura Lippman Quotes for You to Enjoy

Laura Lippman

American Author

Born: Jan 31, 1959

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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

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 time. This is especially important if you have a day job as I did while writing my first seven novels. Laura Lippman

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

People Write Never Almost Verbs Quickly Flattering Used Who

It doesn't feel like work. Yes, I have days that are difficult, but I'm sitting in a chair making up stories. It's what I did for fun as a kid, whether with Barbies or stuffed animals. Laura Lippman

Work Animals Difficult Kid Feel Stuffed Days Like Making Making Up Up Yes Did Sitting Stories Whether Barbie Fun Chair

Edward Eager wrote a series of children's books that are in danger of being forgotten. But they're divine: stories about ordinary kids who stumble on magical things - a coin, a lake, a book, a thyme garden, a well. The magic changes them, they try to change the magic, the magic moves on. Laura Lippman

Change Garden Book Try Stumble Changes Books Danger Kids Magic About Magical Divine Wrote Well Edward Forgotten Being Children Moves Stories Lake Ordinary Them Who Series Eager Things Coin

I was part of a generation where kids had a lot of freedom and aimless downtime. I had no scheduled after-school activities. As long as you came home for dinner, everything was fine. Laura Lippman

Home Freedom You Generation Dinner Long Aimless Everything Kids Fine Had Part Came Lot Where After-School Activities Downtime

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

Kid Responsible Truly Very Different

I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career. Laura Lippman

Stuff Gotten Lot Worked Hard Traveled Career

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college. Laura Lippman

Age People College Kids Most Off Sending

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

Love Some Perfect Takes Baltimore Anyone Place Loving Resilience

In my newspaper days, your endings could be literally sliced off in the composing room, so it was dangerous to get attached to them. Yet I think this has made me work harder on endings in fiction. Laura Lippman

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

Superpowers Empathetic Very Might

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 part because I'm not trying to solve them at that precise moment. Laura Lippman

Life Writing Long Books Solve Solved Gym Part Because Lot Trying Precise While Them Moment Lessons Believed

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