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“You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Parenting #Fighting #Thinking
“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 about it.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Kids #Needs #Disease
“My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Parent #Secret #Vices
“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 right now.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#War #Cop #Novel
“When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Book #Chocolate #Needs
“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.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Writing #People #Suspense
“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 reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Age #Borders #Internet
“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 present.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Strong #Clever #Believe
“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 day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Home #Character #The End Of The Day
“I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Strong #Character #Thinking
“I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Unique #Phones #Suspense
“I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love the way e-books make an author's backlist accessible to new readers. Of course, price point remains a source of concern. Personally, I don't have any of the answers, but I'm intrigued by the questions.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Book #Numbers #Answers
“It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Children #Sacrifice #Men
“Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Gun #Men #Should
“It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Men #Female #Difficult
“I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Action #Tendencies
“I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Thinking #Suspense #Appeals
“Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Daughter #Mother #My Daughter
“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?”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Simple #Answers #Able
“What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or ***** think they know it all.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Thinking #Arrogant #World
“Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Perfect #May #Moments
“Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Men #Laughing #Complaining
“It wasnâ€™t that strangers couldnâ€™t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Hurt #People #Stranger
“Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe thatâ€™s the way of the world.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Letting Go #Mother #Father
“Whomever speaks first gives up some power.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Giving Up #Giving #Firsts
“I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Night #Ghost Stories #Flashlights
“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.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Mother #Father #Proud
“I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Crush #Kings #Would Be
“Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Novelists #Suspense
“You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.”
-- Lisa Gardner

#Hunters

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