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Laura Lippman (born January 31, 1959) is an American author of detective fiction.

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I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.

Adore, Running, Stephen, Tape, Tapes

There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.

Book, Changes, Real, Serendipity, Use

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

Bigger, Audience, Writers, Like, See, Reach

Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.

Feasible, Goes On, Jobs, Keeps, Reporting, World

I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New York Times article on the subject of modern attitudes toward our slave-holding past, the writer noted that we all want to be from "innocent origins. " I _know_ I'm not. Then again, I suspect most of us are not.

Attitude, History, Innocent, New York, Past, Suspect

She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that quality with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.

Bullshit, Girl, License, Life, Smart, Strong

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

Longing, Moment, Moments, Want

But you were a goody-goody, you said. ' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.

Defines, Fact, Facts, Lines, Technicality, Thinking

it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.

Luck, Lucky, Smart, Smarter

It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.

Live, Luck, Nice, Strong, Thinking

As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

Elvis, Female, Listen, Singers, Taste, Vocalists

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

Cooks, Don'T Trust, Eating, Prepared, Trust

The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald. He's wily, talented and-rarest of the rare-a true original. He writes melancholy poetry that actually has melancholy poets wandering around, but don't turn your backs on them, either. I am always eager to see what he's going to do next.

Backs, Eye, Mcdonalds, Poets, Talented, Writing

There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

Children, Learns, Luck, Math, Odds, Times

My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.

Bubbas, Daddy, Grandparents, Mama, Two, Uncles

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

Different, Kid, Kids, Responsible

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

Child, Children, Miserable, Parent, Parents

I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series.

Lets, Series, Stretch, Writers

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.

Baltimore, Cities, Seeing, Suffers, Talking, Thinking

how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?

Gestures, Magnanimous, Ifs, Magnanimity, Aware

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