Lisa Unger Quotes

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!

I've just always been very interested in story above all.

I know what it's like to be genuinely intrigued and compelled by a story and to have a sense that there's an adventure to be had and a film to be conjured.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.

I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time.

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

I look for stories everywhere.

Wherever the good stories are, I'm trying to place myself there.

I'm a fan of creative writing and telling stories.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.