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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. "
Lisa Lutz
Hide
Better
You
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" '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. "
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" 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. "
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Draft
" 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. "
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Ending
Finding
" I don't feel like I'm a writer who works under any influence. "
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Any
Feel
Writer
" 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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Distance
Construction
Wrinkles
" I have a love/hate relationship with jogging. "
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Relationship
Jogging
" Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones. "
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Story
Way
Only
" 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. "
Lisa Lutz
Think
Prison
Me
" I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre. "
Lisa Lutz
Plan
Loved
Write
" I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything. "
Lisa Lutz
You
Research
Sometimes
" 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
Like
Working Together
Together
" 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
Know
Plan
Book
" I worked for a private investigative agency briefly. I rarely had the opportunity to snoop. "
Lisa Lutz
Opportunity
Had
Private
" I was never obsessed with being adopted. I was simply curious about my biological parents. "
Lisa Lutz
Being
Parents
Obsessed
" I was on a few surveillance jobs as part of a big team. I would be the person to follow the subject on foot when the need arose. But most of the time, we were sitting in a car doing nothing. "
Lisa Lutz
Sitting
Team
Time
" 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
Others
Yourself
You
" I was young, maybe 4, when I learned where babies came from. "
Lisa Lutz
Where
Learned
Babies
" 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
Hands
Say
Looking
" 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. "
Lisa Lutz
Ship
Power
I Can
" 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
Furniture
Study
Medicine
" There's no reason why a writer shouldn't explore and use different genres. "
Lisa Lutz
Reason
Writer
Explore
" Sometimes a single item can wrap up, in a nutshell, who a person is. In my grandparents' home, a clear plastic container was enthroned on top of the mahogany bar for at least a decade. Painted on the lid in pink, yellow and light blue was 'Have a Nosh With Mort & Ethel'. "
Lisa Lutz
Light
Home
Blue
" I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game. "
Lisa Lutz
Fair
Rules
Game
" 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. "
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Strong
Father
Happy
" '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
You
Performance
Chosen
" I tend to start books with a very broad outline, but I always leave room for happy accidents. With 'The Passenger,' there were perhaps too many of those. "
Lisa Lutz
Happy
Leave
Accidents
" Band I listen to most: The Ramones. "
Lisa Lutz
Most
Band
Ramones
" I've got no business giving advice to anyone. Even a fictional character. "
Lisa Lutz
Giving
Got
Business
" I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we all watch movies, don't we? But even though I grew up in Los Angeles, my family was entirely unconnected with the movie industry, and I never truly believed that it would one day be my fate. "
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Day
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