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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
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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.

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.

I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.

'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime book that reads like fiction.

Maybe I have this fascination with the dark side because I live in the light. I don't have any dysfunction, and I've never experienced trauma.

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.

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.

Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.