Lisa Gardner Quotes

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• Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.
• It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.
• Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world.
• Whomever speaks first gives up some power.
• You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.
• Expect nothing and life will be velvet.
• Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
• I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.
• I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.
• I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.
• I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.
• It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.
• 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…
• My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.
• 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…
• When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.
• All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I…
• 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…
• I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing…
• 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…

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