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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.

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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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