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

• Sometimes losing a series regular, if you're going to replace them with another series regular, that will put added pressure on your budget.

  

  Aaron Korsh
  • Pressure
  • Budget
  • Series

• TV is like high school because you go into these series, and the people that work there have been doing it for seven years, like 'One Tree Hill,' so you are going into what is already a family - if you are accepted by that family, then it's fantastic fun.

  

  Sasha Jackson
  • Family
  • Accepted
  • Series

• Having money is a way of being free of money.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Money
  • Free
  • Way Of Being

• That the human condition was so obviously exposed to the blind fury of chance that to trust in a God, a Jesus, the Holy Spirit—this last a completely superfluous entity, it was there only to make up a trinity, notoriously nobler than the mere binomial father-son—was the same thing as collecting trading cards while the city burns in the fires of hell.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Chance
  • Trading
  • Entity

• I think every character rubs off on you a little bit.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Character
  • Rubs

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

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Writers
  • Series
  • Stretch