Liftin Quotes

#1. I've never done any cattle-liftin', but it seems to me-e-e that one might just as well be stalky about a thing as not.

Rudyard Kipling

#2. There are certain jobs I don't take because I feel no connection to the person. But if somebody is open with me, and honest about their motivations, and has some level of self- awareness, then I'm going to understand them.

Hilary Liftin

#3. In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

Will Durant

#4. I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve.

Hilary Liftin

#5. I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.

Hilary Liftin

#6. I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write.

Hilary Liftin

#7. She'd also said more than once that I wasn't half as clever as I thought I was. Considering what I thought of myself, that still made me pretty damn clever.

Rob Thurman

#8. Whenever she was with him, it was as if she could dream bigger, see farther.

Elizabeth Camden

#9. Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an endlessly interesting way to have the experience of writing memoir.

Hilary Liftin

#10. Sometimes being around children was the perfect abstinence program.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#11. I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

Hilary Liftin

#12. We exploit celebrities by caring about shallow things like whether they've gotten a facelift. And we violate their children constantly. But we also love them in a way.

Hilary Liftin

#13. I went to L.A. and got an acting coach for one day. Then I went in to audition and I smashed it. You have to take risks, and one thing I know about people: your presence is everything.

Spoken Reasons

#14. Lizzie Pepper is pure fiction! The character is pulled from tabloids. But I think we all look at celebrity marriages and invest in them.

Hilary Liftin

#15. None of my clients are criminals, but to a much lighter degree that's what goes on. I hear the story, and I hear it with the level of detail that breeds empathy.

Hilary Liftin

#16. No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.

Hilary Liftin

#17. I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

Hilary Liftin

#18. I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.

Hilary Liftin