Jeffery Deaver Quotes

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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 uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Hands, Saving, Gestures

  "Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel". Book by Jeffery Deaver, 2009.

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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.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Block, Book, Inspiration

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• You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Thinking, World, Tough

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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.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Book, Character, Plot

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• We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Life, Regret, Years

  Jeffery Deaver (1997). “The Bone Collector”, Viking Press

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• Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Book, Writing, Reader

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

  Jeffery Deaver

  Working Alone, Needs, Levels

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• Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Sometimes, Ought, Be You

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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.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

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• People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful memories, the regrets may be fewer but stand out more prominently, glowing coals that we can never quite extinguish, try though we might

  Jeffery Deaver

  Memories, Regret, Past

  Jeffery Deaver (2011). “Edge: A Novel”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jeffery Deaver

  Writing, Challenges, Together

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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

  Jeffery Deaver

  Writing, Long, Technique

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

  Jeffery Deaver

  Issues, Suspense, Stories

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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.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Book, Writing, Eye

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• And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Life Changing, Fighting, Littles

  Jeffery Deaver (1997). “The Bone Collector”, Viking Press

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• Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Too Much, Congress

  Jeffery Deaver (2011). “Edge: A Novel”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Mean, Thinking, Back Alleys

  GownUps interview, www.grownups.co.nz.

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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.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Book, Garden, Twists

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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.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Past, Doe, Stones

  Jeffery Deaver (2011). “Edge”, p.522, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Block, Book, Writing

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

  Jeffery Deaver

  Writing, Way, Study

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

  Jeffery Deaver

  Stories, Thrillers

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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.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Years, Reflecting Back, People

  Jeffery Deaver (2008). “The Bodies Left Behind: A Novel”, p.317, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jeffery Deaver

  Suspense Novels, Conflict, Subplots

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• I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

  Jeffery Deaver

  Block, Writing, Ideas

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