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Laura Lippman Quotes

American - Author | January 31, 1959 -

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

Love Resilience Perfect Loving Place

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

Responsible Kid Different Very Truly

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

Traveled Career Hard Stuff Lot

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

Age People College Off Kids Most

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.

Think Generation Horror Conservative

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.

Love City Think Better Talking

My reading life is like an airport where a bunch of planes circle in a holding pattern, then - boom, boom, boom - several come in for a landing.

Life Reading Circle Airport Where

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.

Work Me Think Dangerous Newspaper

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.

Change Children Book Magic Lake Try

I like books steeped in the quotidian - details about work and place. You can learn how to run a chicken-and-waffle restaurant by reading 'Mildred Pierce.' And I like fiction about money.

Work Money Reading Details Learn

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 doing the job, meeting deadlines, working hard.

Power Struggle Job People Showing Up

Every person you meet has a story.

Story You Person Meet Every

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