Laura Lippman Quotes

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.

That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.

Writing and producing television very much speaks to the extroverted part of my personality. I love collaboration, the joint effort of hundreds of people working together to create something. But the other part of who I am is extremely introverted. I love being alone and dreaming up ideas and writing novels.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

You become a great writer by writing.

My husband and I oddly have worked together a couple of times. We did a 'Veronica Mars' episode together. We didn't work together, but we were both in 'Ghost World.' We had a theater company in L.A., for a bunch of years. So, we've worked together a fair amount, and it's always just great fun.

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

I was always bossy as a kid. I made my friends do shows that I wrote and would take them on tour from house to house.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

You've got to be able to pay your bills; otherwise, you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.