Laura Lippman Quotes

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.

Laura Lippman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkMoneyReadingDetailsLearn

I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.

Maxine Hong Kingston

WorkWomanYouthThoughtBetter

France and Britain have large culinary differences, but one thing they do share is a relatively low tolerance for modernist cooking.

John Lanchester

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My father had no fear. He wasn't afraid of any man on earth.

Rohan Marley

FearFatherManEarthNo FearHe

Money is available from investors as long as you have a great business model and a talented leader.

Masayoshi Son

LeaderBusinessGreatMoneyYou

You can't ever make the perfect run, but you can make the best run, and then you clock the fastest time, and that's a win.

Mikaela Shiffrin

TimeBestWinYouPerfectRun

I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.

Diablo Cody

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Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even thinking about driving.

Deborah Moggach

FreeThinkingDrivingStreetWay

Every time I had a book come out, I'm like, 'Is it going to be number one?'

Chelsea Handler

TimeBookOutGoingComeLike

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

Christy Turlington

LivingYearsWhoDidManySeparated

I always say I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.

Boy George

SayAlwaysAspirationsCatholic

We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.

Philip K. Dick

LivePeopleWritingSocietyMedia

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Thomas Fuller

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