Quotes by Jeffery Deaver

About Jeffery Deaver:

Jeffery Deaver is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling novelist. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Wolfe Award, and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including The New York Times, The Times, Italy's Corriere della Sera, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Los Angeles Times.
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I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before and little after.  Performers like fats waller, Sinatra, billie holiday, louis armstrong, rosemary clooney, ella, sammy Davis Jr, dean mart...

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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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When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

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She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncert...

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Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those're both illusions – memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that's completely real is this one instant of the present – and...

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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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The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

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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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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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I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

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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.

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

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In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

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

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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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Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

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In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

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I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

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Author Bio

  • NameJeffery Deaver
  • Descriptionnovelist, journalist, lawyer
  • BornMay 1, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist