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

- Laura Lippman

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.

- Laura Lippman

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

- Laura Lippman

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 per…

- Laura Lippman

In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

- Laura Lippman

The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation f…

- Laura Lippman

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

- Laura Lippman

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

- Laura Lippman

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 …

- Laura Lippman