Lisa Unger Quotes
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Anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.
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When you're young it's easy to confuse passion for love.
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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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You cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work.
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I live for the blank page.
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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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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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I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.
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Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.
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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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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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Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.
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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 write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.
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Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.
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Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.
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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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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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If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.