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Lisa Lutz

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Maggie is my sister-in-law, married to my brother David. She is a defense attorney who devotes 25 percent of her practice to pro bono wrongful-incarceration cases. - Lisa Lutz
#Brother
#Defense
#Practice
#She
#Who
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
#Avoid
#Better
#Hide
#Name
#Trying
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
#Bond
#Childhood
#Father
#Me
#Parents
I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B' the summer after I turned 21. - Lisa Lutz
#After
#Draft
#First
#Plan
#Summer
I'm always accused of being a crime novelist, but I'm not really. - Lisa Lutz
#Accused
#Always
#Being
#Novelist
#Really
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
#Anything
#Behind
#Door
#Doors
#Ending
I've always adored the filmmaker Sam Fuller. The first time I watched 'Shock Corridor' was such a magnificent discovery. I love his lack of subtlety, the way he tackles serious topics with bold and inappropriate humor. - Lisa Lutz
#Discovery
#Humor
#Love
#Time
#Way
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
#Construction
#Distance
#Three
#Wrinkles
I was never obsessed with being adopted. I was simply curious about my biological parents. - Lisa Lutz
#About
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#Never
#Parents
#Simply
'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
#Always
#Book
#Enough
#Obsession
#Someone
The sense of not knowing where I came from let me be as smart as I wanted to be. - Lisa Lutz
#Knowing
#Me
#Not Knowing
#Sense
#Smart
'The Chosen,' if you recall, was based on the Chaim Potok novel and featured Robbie Benson's persuasive performance as a Hasidic Jew. - Lisa Lutz
#Chosen
#Performance
#Persuasive
#Recall
Finally, I'm recognizing that rewrites aren't some cosmic punishment for childhood wrongs but the nature of the business. - Lisa Lutz
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#Childhood
#Nature
#Punishment
Six years after I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B,' I received my first paycheck as a writer. It included both the $3,000 in deferred option money as well as half the fee for performing the initial rewrite. The amount was scale according to the Writer's Guild guidelines, but a lot, according to me. - Lisa Lutz
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#Half
#Me
#Money
#Plan
Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention to you. - Lisa Lutz
#Appearance
#Bad
#Change
#Hair
#Way
I have a love/hate relationship with jogging. - Lisa Lutz
#Jogging
#Relationship
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