Lisa Gardner
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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
parenting fighting thinking
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.
night ghost-stories flashlights
I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.
action tendencies
I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.
details
God was in the details.
should wanted saved
Everyone should say what they wanted. It saved time.
trying calm twisted
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.
sloppiness youth no-excuses
Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.
simple answers able
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?
may-not-be-perfect moments enough
Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.
letting-go mother father
Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world.
hunters hunted
You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.
suspense-novels novelists suspense
Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
kids disease becoming
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.
parent secret vices
My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.