Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“Doctor, do you read the Harry Potter books?” “Well, as a matter of fact, yes, I have.” “The fourth was my favorite.… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Six Seconds is a great read. Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe, author Mofina has penned a big, solid international thriller that grabs your… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
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… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“I realized finally what the problem was,” I told Maree. “It wasn’t him. It was my wife. She was treating him like a normal… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.” — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“Stanton clawed his way to the bedside table and managed to grab his knife. He jabbed it into Rhyme. Once, twice. But the only… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“You’re sure it was Loving?” “Yes. That’s exactly the kind of strategy he’d choose. There’s no doubt it was him.” I was aware of… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“Maree opened her eyes wide. “Wait, wait . . . I know you.” She regarded me with a frown. I must have blinked in surprise. Had we… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“eager’ and ‘anxious’ aren’t the same, or how ‘disinterested’ doesn’t mean ‘uninterested.” — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“DuBois’s observations were back. She’d largely recovered from the Graham ignominy.” — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“Maree may have noted that I said “wife” and not “ex,” which imparted some information to her. She was smarter than the package suggested.… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
