I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it. — Lisa Unger Believe Copy Share Image
Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe… — Lisa Unger Discovery Copy Share Image
I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart… — Lisa Unger Admiration Copy Share Image
“What we think of as our “gut instincts” are really a very complex mosaic of past experiences, deep-seated hopes, fears, desires.” — Lisa Unger Desire Copy Share Image
“Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. Or punishment, depending on the circumstances.” — Lisa Unger Love Copy Share Image
“Parenthood wasn’t about blood or biology, he found; it was about a joyful willingness to give yourself over, to subordinate your own… — Lisa Unger Happiness Copy Share Image
Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you. — Lisa Unger Asks Copy Share Image
Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction. — Lisa Unger Autobiographical Copy Share Image
There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with… — Lisa Unger Always Copy Share Image
“Maybe that’s all life was, this impossibly complicated helix of choice and accident, things you could control and couldn’t. And when the… — Lisa Unger Life Copy Share Image
I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom… — Lisa Unger Actually Copy Share Image
“Honestly, it’s the most you can ask of men sometimes. They’re so wound up, so buried beneath layers of “boys don’t cry,”… — Lisa Unger Man U Copy Share Image
“Where I train we smack our palms and knuckles against cinderblocks. This action creates tiny fissures in the bones. When those fissures… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
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… — Lisa Unger Aches Copy Share Image
There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life. — Lisa Unger Dark Copy Share Image
I didn’t see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone’s life. — Lisa Unger Analyzing Copy Share Image
“Or she could listen to that other voice, the voice that wasn’t a voice but something so deep, so indivisible from her… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“Give up, she wanted to tell them. You lost. The world is crap, and no amount of communicating is going to change… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any dysfunction, and I've… — Lisa Unger Any Copy Share Image
“Shock is the stepsister of denial. It cushions the blow to your psyche when really fucked up things happen.” — Lisa Unger Things happen Copy Share Image
Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything,… — Lisa Unger Ache Copy Share Image
You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home. — Lisa Unger Body Copy Share Image
I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen. — Lisa Unger Books Copy Share Image