American - Author | April 26, 1970 -
I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.
Lisa Unger
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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.
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I live for the blank page.
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I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.
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There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.
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If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.
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I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.
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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.
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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.
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I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.
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I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted love story at its center.
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'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.
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