Lisa Scottoline Quotes
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Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.
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There was no known cure for a Catholic education.
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People project all sorts of emotions onto their cats, and cats like it that way.
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Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.
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I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.
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Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
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I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.
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Testosterone should be a controlled substance.
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Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.
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My theory is that you find out who your true friends are when something good happens to you, not when something bad happens to you. Everybody loves you when something bad happens to you. Then you're easy to love.
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I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.
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Alafair Burke's first standalone is a must read! You'll lose yourself in this riveting story of Alice Humphrey, a woman whose nightmare begins when she goes to work at her new gallery job, only to find everything gone—and a murdered man on the floor. You can't guess the plot twists that follow, as Alice's whole word turns upside down and she has to question everyone and everything she thought was real. And the ending is a shocker you'll never see coming.
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I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.
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Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.
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Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.
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I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers.
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Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.
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Likewise, I would never be so rude as to not interrupt a friend. How else would she know I was listening?
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everything associated with weddings cost the same - a fortune.
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You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.
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And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I'd be happy to be there at 86.
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Let's talk about a decision that women have to make every morning- Big purse or little purse?
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I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.
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If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.
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Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.
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My animals are a really important part of my life.
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And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were.
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Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden now.
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I still think I'm writing Nancy Drew with a mortgage.
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We can't control what people do or say, even if it's dumb.
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