Jeffery Deaver Quotes

• I’ve often said that there’s no such thing as writer’s block; the problem is idea block.

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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 write pretty much anywhere – on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

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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 spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

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• I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

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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 like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

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• I also try very hard to create characters – both heroes and villains – with psychological depth.

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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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• 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.

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• For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

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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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• 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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Jeffery Deaver (34)

Birth:	6th May, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Jeffery Deaver was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA. He is an American crime writer. He earned a BA degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He has written several novels include: Manhattan Is My Beat, Death of a Blue Movie Star, The Bone Collector (Won- Nero Award), The Coffin Dancer, The Devil's Teardrop, The Empty Chair, Hell's Kitchen, The Stone Monkey, The Vanished Man, Garden of Beasts (Won- CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award), The Twelfth Card, The Cold Moon, The Broken Window, The Burning Wire, and Carte Blanche. He has written several short stories include: Twisted, and More Twisted.

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