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
character thinking people
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.
thinking punishment too-late
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?
growing-up responsibility thinking
I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.
believe thinking people
Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.
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.