Lisa Unger
Lisa Unger
Lisa Ungeris an American author of contemporary fiction. Her novels have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, have sold millions of copies and have been translated into twenty-six languages...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 April 1970
CountryUnited States of America
zero children fall
It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.
love fall heart
When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person,not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.
alone business novel travels writer
The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.
cold reads thriller true work
'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.
reason
I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.
life love validation village
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.
confident ebb exist flow knowledge needs open organic protecting vigilant village writer
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.
business publishing relationships
Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.
time
I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.
Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.
instant
I'm a 'bound book' kind of girl. I have a Kindle, and I enjoy it for some things, like convenience or instant gratification, or all the little things that you can do with them.
bound captured clock compelling dark love mystery plotting stellar ticking turning
I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.
became trying
I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.
believe definitely flows people
I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.