Liftin Quotes & Sayings

May you illuminate the darkest alleys and make smooth the path of those saddled with the heaviest load. — Chrissa Ventrelle

To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them. — E.F. Benson

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

Nothing is so lovely as a quietly snoring dog and some evening Brahms, as you sit in a comfortably overstuffed chair with your feet on the footstool. — Ann Beattie

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

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

An enormous urn of coffee was being put to use by both cops and servers. One of her own uniforms was helping himself to a tray of fancy finger food and another was already hitting the dessert cart.

It only took her presence to have the room falling into stillness, and silence.

"Officers, if you can manage to tear yourselves away from the all-you-can-eat buffet, take posts outside the doors of both kitchen exits. As cause of death has not yet been officially called, I'll remind you that you're stuffing evidence in your faces. If necessary, I'll have you both cut open so that evidence can be removed. — J.D. Robb

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

For the first four, nearly five, years of their lives, I'd had complete understanding of my sons' brains. Every animal Cap identified - I knew where he'd learned it. Every food Leo liked - I knew when he'd first tasted it. Every word they used came from me or a book we'd read together. Even as they started to have their own thoughts and ideas - "I'm a doggie, and you're the mommy doggie, and we're going to fall in the mud" - I could source the books and experiences they were mixing and matching. — Hilary Liftin

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

I don't think you can take a whole genre of very popular books and say, "This is all trash!" When we read a memoir that isn't by a celebrity, we feel like we're about to go on a journey and we don't know where the journey will lead. But when we read a memoir by a celebrity we feel like we already know the journey and we just want to travel it. — Hilary Liftin

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

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

He enters the port with a full sail. — Virgil

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

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

We will discover through our own experience that this precious mind of love is the real wish-granting jewel, because it fulfills the pure wishes of both ourself and all living beings. — Kelsang Gyatso

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about. — Don Ed Hardy

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

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

I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked. — Obie Trice

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady. — Raquel Cepeda

No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job. — Hilary Liftin

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

She was the one who wanted to be with him, the one who watched and waited for him, who felt his absence badly. — Sonya Hartnett

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death. — Isaac Asimov

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but, in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result. — Anne Bronte

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product. — Eliot Spitzer

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing. — Jawaharlal Nehru