Laura Lippman Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 31, 1959

Topics

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Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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I see people that have success, and I see how poised and polished they are and how they handle it. I wonder inside if they feel the same way that I feel.

Jerry West

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My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood.

John Krasinski

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I stopped using plastic cooking spoons years ago and love my bamboo spoons and spatulas by Bambuhome.

Anna Getty

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If we want an international trade deal that advances the interests of our own people, then perhaps we don't need a 'fast-track' but a regular track: where the president sends us any proposal he deems worthy, and we review it on its own merits.

Jeff Sessions

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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Skunk works were emblematic of corporate structures that focused on execution and devalued innovation.

Steve Blank

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Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.

Sigrid Nunez

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The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

Michael Patrick King

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My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

Logan Marshall-Green

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All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

Josephine Baker

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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

Jonathan Swift

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