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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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Lisa Scottoline
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 1
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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 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.
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My animals are a really important part of my life.
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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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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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Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.
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don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.
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Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.
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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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If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.
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The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. And each feels as good as the other. Your heart doesn't know if it's loving a man, a book, or a puppy. If your heart were that smart, it would be your brain.
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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 was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.
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I read, therefore, I matter.
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People project all sorts of emotions onto their cats, and cats like it that way.
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Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.
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Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.
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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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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.
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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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