Laura Lippman Quotes

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

Laura Lippman

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• My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Angel
  • Writers

• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Actor

• Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

  

  Oliver North
  • Writers
  • Readers

• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Community
  • Writers
  • Colleagues

• Writers are not meant for action.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Action
  • Writers
  • Meant

• To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Me
  • End
  • Actor

• I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Beginning
  • Writers
  • Influenced

• Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writers
  • Readers
  • Publishers

• I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Writers
  • Thriller
  • Favourites

• My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Me
  • Writers
  • Sensibility

• All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Film

• A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Stretch

• I fought to make a multiple series commitment with John Wells.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Commitment
  • Series
  • Fought

• For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o'clock, and I'll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I'll go train.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Training

• I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.

  

  Amanda Hocking
  • Fun
  • Inspiration
  • Teenager

• Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Reach
  • Stretch
  • Doomsday

• I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • World
  • Game
  • Imagine

• There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.

  

  Len Wein
  • People
  • Business
  • Age

• Most people are dispensable in 'Game of Thrones,' not only in the story but in the series.

  

  Isaac Hempstead Wright
  • People
  • Story
  • Series

• When you're 20, you can't imagine being 30. When you're 30, you can't imagine being 40. When you're 40, you can't imagine being 100.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Imagine
  • 20
  • 30

• This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Time
  • Good
  • Power

• I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Important
  • Leadership
  • Lessons

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

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Writers
  • Series
  • Stretch