Lisa Lutz Quotes

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Lisa Lutz

Profession : Author

Birth : March 13, 1970

I don't feel like I'm a writer who works under any influence.

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There's no reason why a writer shouldn't explore and use different genres.

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I worked for a private investigative agency briefly. I rarely had the opportunity to snoop.

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You can't be suspicious 24/7. It's too exhausting.

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I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything.

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I have a love/hate relationship with jogging.

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If you're trying to hide, avoid using your own name. Have a couple spares that you can pull out of your pocket anytime, the more thoroughly documented the better.

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I'm always accused of being a crime novelist, but I'm not really.

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I love 'The Wire'. I can't think of a television show that I think is superior to it in any way. I was obsessed with it from the moment it came on the air. I do also love 'Doctor Who' and 'Get Smart'.

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I liked the idea of exposing the beams in collaborative novel. And there are many - especially in the crime world - there are many people working together: James Patterson and his stable of sub authors; and then there are like Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman and Jason Starr.

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I was never obsessed with being adopted. I was simply curious about my biological parents.

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I learned how to cross-country ski.

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My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline. I just start writing and keep notes for what may come. It's an organic process that's usually pretty flexible.

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I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game. But I also think, in light of some current trends in our culture, that privacy should be respected.

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I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer.

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Years ago, when my attempts at a writing career came to a complete stand-still, I applied to the Los Angeles Police Department. This might seem odd for a liberal woman who once went to UC Santa Cruz, but I've always had a powerful fascination with crime and serious interest in finding different ways to contend with it.

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If I were one of the three viable presidential candidates, I doubt I'd be too broken up about someone looking into my passport file. Go ahead look, I'd say. It's the passport photo I wouldn't want anyone getting his hands on.

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My mother, at sixty, is one of those classic beauties: all neck and cheekbones, sharp lines that hide her wrinkles from a distance. She still gets whistles from construction workers from three stories up.

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For more than three months, I had been president and primary owner of Spellman Investigations, and I can say with complete certainty that I had more power in this office as an underling. My title, it seemed, was purely decorative. I was captain of an unfashionable and sinking ship.

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I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there.

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