John Lutz Quotations

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

We're looking for more mysteries, including some fairly contemporary mysteries. So there may be some not so cold cases that we're investigating.

When I looked around, with my wife, Sarasota seemed like the best place in Florida. We settled about one mile from Siesta Key.

Doctors are under significant pressure since 1991 to do as much or more based on fewer dollars.

Andy is a hard worker, he's a good guy, and he's out here three times a week. And Warren is doing a good job. I like to help him out.

Florida is a great place to set a novel.

There's nothing better you can do than to exonerate somebody who's been hanged . . . for a crime. And that's what students can end up doing on this project.

It would help. We can always use more help.

It's a difficult environment and it only gets harder because from year to year, the Medicare dollars we are paid are adjusted with the federal budget. It's hard to grow a business when you don't know what you're going to get paid from year to year.

It's been 41 years as a professional in the school business and before that it was 19 years of actually being a student, so that's quite a few years, so it's time to look ahead for some other exciting adventures in life,

It's so hard to pin anything down. A cougar or puma is like a UFO with four feet.

Every town has its dark side, but I spend time in New York for my dark inspiration.

In the mysteries project we turn students into historian detectives and invite them to do the exciting work of history. Normally, we tell students what happened when we teach history, but in this project we ask them to tell us,

Canadian history is not at all boring. It's Canadian historians who are boring.