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Lisa Lutz

American Author

Born: Mar 13, 1970

Book Came Crime First Think You

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

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. Lisa Lutz

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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. Lisa Lutz

'Await Your Reply' by Dan Chaon. I've always been obsessed with the idea of disappearing and becoming someone else. Even if you don't share that obsession, I can't recommend this book highly enough. Lisa Lutz

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

You Too Exhausting Suspicious

We're all amateur investigators. We scan bookshelves, we ogle trinkets left out in the open, we calculate the cost of furniture and study the photographs on display; sometimes we even check out the medicine cabinet. Lisa Lutz

Sometimes Medicine Furniture Out Scan Photographs Cost Cabinet Open Investigators Study Check Calculate Amateur Left Display Even

I could never really choose a favorite book, but whenever I'm asked what my favorite movie is, I always say 'Withnail & I,' a British film from 1987. It's funny and sad and absolutely gorgeous to look at. It's the film I can watch over and over again. Lisa Lutz

I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way. Lisa Lutz

Me Happy Strong Mother Father Parents Strangers Living Complete Way Neither Had Feel Felt Overly Were Same Suspect Childhood Anything Ascetic Sensitive Happy Childhood Who Bond Raised

I have a love/hate relationship with jogging. Lisa Lutz

Relationship Jogging

I wouldn't say that my family is normal. Lisa Lutz

Family Say Normal

I was young, maybe 4, when I learned where babies came from. Lisa Lutz

Young Babies Learned Came Maybe Where

The sense of not knowing where I came from let me be as smart as I wanted to be. Lisa Lutz

Me Smart Sense Not Knowing Knowing Came Where Wanted

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones. Lisa Lutz

Dark Humor Way Tell Only Story

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never know at the outset how the book will end, nor do I ever stick to my original plan. Lisa Lutz

People transform in some ways, and they remain exactly the same in others. Often, the thing you'd like to change the most about yourself is where you will forever remain stuck. Lisa Lutz

While I had no intention of ending the series after 'The Spellmans Strike Again,' I did close many doors in that book and, with the fifth one, I was opening a lot of doors and not finding anything behind them and then opening another door and another until I found something. It was a while before I found my stride. Lisa Lutz

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

Writer Feel Like Any Influence Who Works

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. Lisa Lutz

You Hide Better Own Thoroughly Out Pocket More Name Couple Documented Trying Anytime Spares Your Avoid Using Pull

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

Crime Always Accused Being Really Novelist

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'. Lisa Lutz

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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. Lisa Lutz

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