I’ve taken on some of the emotional weight of the stories I’ve worked on. I was writing about … - Hilary Liftin

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I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.

Hilary Liftin

I’ve taken on some of the emotional weight of the stories I’ve worked on. I was writing about a very difficult time in the life of one of my clients and I burst into tears at a small, crowded café. . . I’m not a crier at all in my own life. Maybe that’s why I’m a ghostwriter.

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

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

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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.

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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!

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

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