Lisa Unger Quotations

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.

'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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.