Top 12 Lisa Gardner Quotes

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.

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.

I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.

My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can’t stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.

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.

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.

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.

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

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 loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

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.