Jeffery Deaver Quotes
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Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.
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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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Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.
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I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm working on a brief passage in a novel or brainstorming about an entire book-it's usually because I'm trying to shoehorn an idea into the passage or story where it has no place.
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When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.
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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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Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.
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For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
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I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
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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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I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.
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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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I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block
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I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.
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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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That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.
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In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.
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I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.
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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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I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
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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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People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.
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Six Seconds is a great read. Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe, author Mofina has penned a big, solid international thriller that grabs your gut -- and your heart -- in the opening scenes and never lets go.
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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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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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Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today.
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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 spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.
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I've worked for law firms, I've worked for corporations, and for the past 20 years, I've been writing working for myself, and believe me it's a lot better. That's a big part of the James Bond panache, that you're responsible, 100 percent responsible, for the success or failure of your mission in life, whatever it is.
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She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.
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