Lisa Gardner Quotes

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

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 have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.

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

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

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

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

Who do you love? It’s a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes of one’s days. Simple, elegant encompassing. Who do you love?

When it comes to locations, I’m one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I’ve ever done – and I’ve visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc.

Once, I was my mother’s daughter. Now I am my daughter’s mother.

You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.

My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels.