American - Author | January 31, 1959 -
For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their way to seek.
Laura Lippman
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I'm very empathetic - that might be one of my superpowers.
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My husband, David Simon, and I make our livings using our imaginations.
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My husband and I are both proud public school graduates.
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I spent grades one through nine in Baltimore City, leaving for reasons that had nothing to do with the quality of education I was receiving.
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Baltimore has been a punchline/punching bag for years - I've landed a few blows, to be fair - but those old jokes are out of touch.
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Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary disciplines.
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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.
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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.
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Writers who don't read can't write well. It's that simple. The more you read, the better you read, the better you'll write. The upside is that you can't read too much, and even 'junk' reading can be constructive.
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I never knew how passive-aggressive people could be until I became a parent. Or even aggressive-aggressive. It actually began before I had a child. A relative asked me out to lunch and told me I was too old for motherhood.
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The verbs that are used for people who write quickly are almost never flattering.
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