Elinor Lipman Quotes

#1. First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!

Wally Lamb

#2. Elinor Lipman is to tweets what Shakespeare is to sonnets.

Firoozeh Dumas

#3. Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye.

Cathleen Schine

#4. My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

Elinor Lipman

#5. I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.

Elinor Lipman

#6. My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

Lee Greenwood

#7. It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else.

Elinor Lipman

#8. It's all part of a plan." He said, and smiled. "Our reward isn't here on earth. Earth barely matters. It's just a practice, this life is only a passing place, a stopping point on our journey.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#9. It was not complicated, and, as my mother pointed out, not even personal: They had a hotel; they didn't want Jews; we were Jews. (The Inn at Lake Devine)

Elinor Lipman

#10. I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.

Elinor Lipman

#11. I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

Elinor Lipman

#12. I hadn't known up to that moment that I had a surname that was recognizably Jewish, or that people named Marx would be unwelcome somewhere in the United States because of it.

Elinor Lipman

#13. I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they're writing nice sentences even if it isn't adding up to much.

James Patterson

#14. Oh yeah, this was so comforting. Like a porcupine in a condom factory.' (Danger)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

Elinor Lipman

#16. An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me ... And you know, people like happy endings.

Elinor Lipman

#17. Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

Elinor Lipman

#18. Life took you right to the edge of where you wanted to go, then turned left.

Lisa Samson

#19. Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.

Kurt Cobain