"If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave."

“It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.”

Source : Laura Lippman (2015). “Baltimore Blues”, p.146, Faber & Faber

“I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get to leave town, and when I do, I tend to go for three days max. Seeing between 30 and 40 shows a week in 100 or so galleries and museums takes up nearly all my time.”

“Round, cat-eye frames, wayfarers, and aviators are my go-tos.”

Source : "Georgia May Jagger and Jerry Hall Dish on Classic Sunglasses and the Power of Red Lipstick". Interview with Carly Cardellino, www.cosmopolitan.com. May 8, 2013.

“In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.”

Source : 1961 England, Half English,'Pop Songs and Teenagers'.

“I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.”

“I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a movie. She's supposed to be chubby, and two of the hottest guys ever are straight-up fighting over her?”

“by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.102, tredition

“The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.”