Words matter. These are the best Lisa Gardner Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can’t stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.
I still like the relationship part of any story. You don’t want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.
I don’t know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me.
I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.
We’re all in this together – when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.
I’m not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.
I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.
It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won’t read women.
When you’re on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.
What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the ‘who’ will always matter more than the ‘what.’ It’s fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares about who it’s happening to.
I’m unique for a suspense author in that I don’t have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn’t even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons – I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.
I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.
Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease… we do need to talk about it.
Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it’s going on right now.
