Lisa Lutz Quotes

My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline. I just start writing and keep notes for what may come. It's an organic process that's usually pretty flexible.

Lisa Lutz

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• The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Food

• Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Important
  • Real
  • Know

• My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • She
  • Kitchen
  • Grandma

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Tribe

• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Day

• The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • More
  • Now
  • Almost

• I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Work
  • Family
  • Taken

• If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Lose
  • Terms

• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Me

• I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Love
  • Food
  • Die

• I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.

  

  T-Pain
  • Myself
  • Rest
  • Treat

• As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • American
  • House
  • Space

• I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my autograph, Spenser-Margaret will say, 'You must watch 'Charlie's Angels.' You know, that's like all I've done to them.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Children
  • Done
  • Think

• It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'

  

  Patina Miller
  • Dream
  • Girl
  • College

• We were content to be undisturbed in our our little backwater, Union Grove, Washington County, in a place once called the Empire State, where the Battenkill runs into the Hudson River.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • River

• I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • High
  • Wish
  • Stupid

• I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Writing
  • Enjoy
  • Exciting

• The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Mind

• My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline. I just start writing and keep notes for what may come. It's an organic process that's usually pretty flexible.

  

  Lisa Lutz
  • Writing
  • May
  • Pretty