159 Quotes by Lisa Gardner

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

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.

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.