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Lisa Unger
American
Author
Born:
Apr 26
,
1970
Dark
Going
Love
Writer
Writing
You
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Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
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Zig Ziglar
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
Noise
Dark
Imagination
Kind
Window
Had
Know
Always
Want
Form
Staircase
Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other. The writer needs to be vigilant in protecting both, confident in the knowledge that the village will be there when we choose, finally, to open the door.
Lisa Unger
Needs
Knowledge
Writing
Will
Organic
Other
Finally
Both
Writer
Open
Like
Protecting
Course
Without
Does
Exist
Confident
Door
Processes
Choose
Vigilant
Village
Flow
The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. That's the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.
Lisa Unger
Other
Backdrop
Danger
Worst
Kind
Finger
Lifting
Most
Without
Lot
Domestic
Families
Done
Often
Dwell
Psychological
Each
Novels
Ever
Violence
Damage
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.
Lisa Unger
Myself
People
Met
Think
Characters
Having
More
Any
Them
Create
Created
Page
Exploring
Whom
Actually
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.
Lisa Unger
You
Book
Little Things
Girl
Enjoy
Kind
Kindle
Some
Some Things
Instant
Instant Gratification
Bound
Like
Convenience
Little
Them
Gratification
Things
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.
Lisa Unger
Love
Character
Heart
Dark
Big
Kind
Plotting
Some
Mystery
Stellar
Prose
Bound
Ticking
Clock
Want
Center
Story
Turning
Pages
Captured
Keep
Compelling
Lured
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.
Lisa Unger
Love
Dark
Love Story
Teenager
Gut
Wrenching
Voice
Powerful
Read
Suspense
Center
Story
Swept
Away
Twisted
There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement.
Lisa Unger
News
Sometimes
Gossip
Fans
Chaotic
Colleagues
Potential
Computer
Excitement
Readers
Always
Opinions
Friends
Little
Village
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.
Lisa Unger
Alone
Business
Writing
Long
Imagination
Writer
Self
Road
Novel
Travels
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 connection.
Lisa Unger
Life
Love
Sometimes
Validation
Computer
Writer
Day-To-Day
Day-To-Day Life
Aches
Little
Connection
Village
Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.
Lisa Unger
You
Business
Relationships
Carry
Over
House
Make
Another
Publishing
I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.
Lisa Unger
Writing
Safe Place
Kid
Observer
New
Safe
Became
Understand
Always
Trying
Going
Place
I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.
Lisa Unger
Out
Find
Write
Read
Same
Going
Happen
Reason
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