Lisa Gardner Quotes

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

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.

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.

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

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

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

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

Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

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.

Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.

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

Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.

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.

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.

I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.

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

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

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

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

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?

Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world.

Whomever speaks first gives up some power.

God was in the details.

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

Everyone should say what they wanted. It saved time.

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.

We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.

You know what the difference between a cardiac surgeon and God is? God doesn't think he's a cardiac surgeon.

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.

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.

I want to cry but I don’t. I don’t. There are pieces of yourself, so many pieces of yourself, that, once you give away, you cannot get back again.

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.

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