Lisa Unger Quotes
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It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?
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I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.
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'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime book that reads like fiction.
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I live for the blank page.
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I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted love story at its center.
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The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.
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I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.
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Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other. The writer needs to be vigilant in protecting both, confident in the knowledge that the village will be there when we choose, finally, to open the door.
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Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.
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Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.
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Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any dysfunction, and I've never experienced trauma.
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There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement.
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Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.
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Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that's where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe.
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I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection.
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I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring on the page. I don't actually think of myself as having 'created' any of these people.
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Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble.
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The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. That's the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.
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I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.
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If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.