Quotes by Lisa Gardner

About Lisa Gardner:

Lisa Gardner is an American author of fiction. She is the author of several thrillers including The Killing Hour and The Next Accident. She also wrote romance novels using the pseudonym Alicia Scott. Raised in Hillsboro, Oregon, she graduated from the city's Glencoe High School. Her novel Gone is set in a fictionalized version of Tillamook, Oregon. As of 2007, Gardner lives in New Hampshire.
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Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.

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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

Most killers have pretty average lifestyles. Steady jobs too. Sometimes they're even living the family life-white picket fence and a four-door sedan. That's what makes them so scary. They act human and they slot into society and since a young age the...

Lisa Gardner

Oh, for the love of God. There is no agent more agent than you. I swear you have pin-striped ties encrypted into your DNA. When you die, the coffin is going to read Property of the FBI.

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What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

Lisa Gardner

Most people don't need the help of strangers to screw up their lives; most of them are quite capable of doing it themselves!

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There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.

Lisa Gardner

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

Lisa Gardner

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.

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I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.

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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

When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.

Lisa Gardner

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...

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What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the 'who' will always matter more than the 'what.' It's fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares ab...

Lisa Gardner

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.

Lisa Gardner

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

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

Lisa Gardner

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

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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

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.

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Author Bio

  • NameLisa Gardner
  • DescriptionAmerican author
  • AliasesAlicia Scott
  • ProfessionWriter