Lisa Unger Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.”

“If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.”

“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.”

“Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.”

“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.”

“I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.”

“I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.”

“'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.”

“Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.”

“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.”