Quotes By Jeffery Deaver
Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.
Jeffery Deaver
The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
Jeffery Deaver
The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.
Jeffery Deaver
I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
Jeffery Deaver
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
Jeffery Deaver
The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.
Jeffery Deaver
When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.
Jeffery Deaver
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.
Jeffery Deaver
I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.
Jeffery Deaver
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
Jeffery Deaver
Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.
Jeffery Deaver
Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.
Jeffery Deaver
To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.
Jeffery Deaver
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
Jeffery Deaver
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
Jeffery Deaver
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
Jeffery Deaver
If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.
Jeffery Deaver
It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.
Jeffery Deaver