Elinor Lipman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#People #Degrees #Lessons
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

#Basketball #Girl #Team
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
-- Elinor Lipman

#Jobs #Writing #Boston
I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.
-- Elinor Lipman

#Golf #Television #Watches
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

#Shopping #House #Miles
My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.
-- Elinor Lipman

#Self Esteem #School #Narrators
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

#Book #Writing #Intelligent
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

#Goes On #Next #Hundred

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
The interior of the earth is extremely hot â€“ several million degrees.
I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.
One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of ***** which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.
There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members...This language at the present day would appear as wild as that great part of what we now hear from the same quarter will be thought, when we shall have received further lessons from that best oracle of wisdom, experience.

Elinor Lipman famous quotes

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