Laura Lippman's Quotes

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

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 perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

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

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

I got quite good results from protein plates.

Life is short and progress is slow.

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.

In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.

Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.

The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.