Lisa Scottoline
Lisa Scottoline
Lisa Scottolineis an American author of legal thrillers. According to her website, her last name is pronounced as if it rhymes with fettucine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth1 July 1955
CountryUnited States of America
book writing stories
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.
character writing philadelphia
You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.
writing thinking mortgage
I still think I'm writing Nancy Drew with a mortgage.
writing thinking stories
Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
writing thinking trying
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.
chickens dogs feed gives home office stop time until walk words work written
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.
dead literary
You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.
care difference ethical legal moral stories women
What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.
albeit both bottom fiction funny hard love memoir true unique
I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.
morning blessing people
Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.
cat people way
People project all sorts of emotions onto their cats, and cats like it that way.
believe law numbers
don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.
animal important
My animals are a really important part of my life,
divorce way lawyer
I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after,