Quotes by Lisa Scottoline

About Lisa Scottoline:

Lisa Scottoline is an American author of legal thrillers. According to her website, her last name is pronounced as if it rhymes with fettuccine or scaloppine.
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Listen carefully, I’m going to say three words.” “I love you?

Lisa Scottoline

How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital? The patients get better and leave.

Lisa Scottoline

I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it’s practice for sociopaths.

Lisa Scottoline

Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully until the very minute that she'd written about it, as if each story was one she told herself and he...

Lisa Scottoline

It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance.

Lisa Scottoline

I still think I'm writing Nancy Drew with a mortgage.

Lisa Scottoline

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

Lisa Scottoline

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

Lisa Scottoline

If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.

Lisa Scottoline

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.

Lisa Scottoline

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.

Lisa Scottoline

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.

Lisa Scottoline

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

Lisa Scottoline

I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.

Lisa Scottoline

We're here and we prey on you. We target you. We groom you.

Lisa Scottoline

If you can't be brave, be determined. And you'll end up in the same place.

Lisa Scottoline

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

Lisa Scottoline

I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.

Lisa Scottoline

I get up around 8 o'clock, which gives me enough time to walk dogs and feed chickens and horses. Then I get to work in my home office upstairs, and basically, I don't stop until I've written 2,000 words and/or the Stephen Colbert show is over.

Lisa Scottoline

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.

Lisa Scottoline

Author Bio

  • NameLisa Scottoline
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJuly 1, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionLawyer; Writer; Novelist
  • AwardsEdgar Award