85 Quotes by Lisa Lutz

I am a huge Mel Brooks fan. And I do think that not seeing his canon of classics is a bit criminal or clueless.

I was young, maybe 4, when I learned where babies came from.

When I was 6, I learned where I came from, which was one step removed from the usual circumstances. I was adopted.

The sense of not knowing where I came from let me be as smart as I wanted to be.

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

People transform in some ways, and they remain exactly the same in others. Often, the thing you'd like to change the most about yourself is where you will forever remain stuck.

I've got no business giving advice to anyone. Even a fictional character.

While I had no intention of ending the series after 'The Spellmans Strike Again,' I did close many doors in that book and, with the fifth one, I was opening a lot of doors and not finding anything behind them and then opening another door and another until I found something. It was a while before I found my stride.

I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.