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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. "
Laura Lippman
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" People still struggle with this notion of gifted writers somehow being in touch with a higher power, but it's all about showing up and doing the job, meeting deadlines, working hard. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre. "
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" 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. "
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" Edward Eager wrote a series of children's books that are in danger of being forgotten. But they're divine: stories about ordinary kids who stumble on magical things - a coin, a lake, a book, a thyme garden, a well. The magic changes them, they try to change the magic, the magic moves on. "
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" I sometimes allow people to infer that I'm much less successful than I am. "
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" I don't know where my phone is half the time. "
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" Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience. "
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" The verbs that are used for people who write quickly are almost never flattering. "
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" 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. "
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Like
" I was part of a generation where kids had a lot of freedom and aimless downtime. I had no scheduled after-school activities. As long as you came home for dinner, everything was fine. "
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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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" It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for. "
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" 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. "
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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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Better
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" I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career. "
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" My husband, David Simon, and I make our livings using our imaginations. "
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" Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both. "
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" 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. "
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" My husband and I are both proud public school graduates. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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