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. Laura Lippman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
After I started writing crime fiction, I said to myself, ‘I may be limited, but the genre’s not. There’s no reason to change genres if I’m happy writing what I write.’ And I am. Laura Lippman Read Quote
Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary disciplines. Laura Lippman Read Quote
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. Laura Lippman Read Quote
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. Laura Lippman Read Quote
