Jeffery Deaver Quotes
Jeffery Deaver Quotes
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But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.
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Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
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For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
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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.
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I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.
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I have to say that there are certain books that exist to tell a particular story and then there are books that exist in the context of character.
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I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
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I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.
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I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
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I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
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I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.
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I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.
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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.
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In general, I think, less is more and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my obligation to the readers.
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In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.
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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.
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It's accurate to the extent that I explore the psychology of crime and crime detection in my books: the minds of the criminal and his hunters.
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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.
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Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.
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Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.
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So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
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The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
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The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.
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The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.
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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.
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Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
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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.
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When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.
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You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.
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