Jeffery Deaver

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

— Jeffery Deaver

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in…

— Jeffery Deaver

People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.

— Jeffery Deaver

“of your bed as you slept. Sachs had brought Braden Alexander’s clothing too. Cooper”

— Jeffery Deaver

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

— Jeffery Deaver

“This that you are proposing, it is irregular and we are not people who are well with irregularness.” At”

— Jeffery Deaver

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

— Jeffery Deaver

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

— Jeffery Deaver

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So…

— Jeffery Deaver

“We have to assume Loving’s found your account. If you read messages or send any, it’s possible for him to correlate time…

— Jeffery Deaver

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

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end…

— Jeffery Deaver

“One said, “Nobody paused in front of the house since we’ve been here.” I slipped my ID case away. “Any out-of-state tags?”…

— Jeffery Deaver

“As a matter of fact, yeah, they were foolproof. The problem is that you don't have to protect yourself against fools. You…

— Jeffery Deaver

“As I’d listened in on the conversation, I’d noted what seemed to be disappointment in Loving’s voice. I wondered if that was…

— Jeffery Deaver

Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments…

— Jeffery Deaver

“Every case I worked is closed. All the principals were either abducted and resettled . . . or zeroed,” she said, using a verb that…

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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,…

— Jeffery Deaver

“Doctor, do you read the Harry Potter books?” “Well, as a matter of fact, yes, I have.” “The fourth was my favorite.…

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“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…

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“I was disappointed. Voice analysis can tell a lot about the caller: gender, most of the time, national and regional roots, illnesses,…

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“I could see the palm of Freddy’s hand tap the butt of his Glock. We do this to reorient our muscles and…

— Jeffery Deaver

“Hollow then produced Kobel’s tax returns for the past three years. When Ringling objected, Hollow said to Judge Rollins, “Your Honor, a…

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“Which one I like better?” “That’s the question, Mr. Tour Guide.” I felt suddenly awkward, like I was being tested on something…

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“GPS—whose voice I had decided sounded unnervingly like Chris Teasley’s, Westerfield’s assistant—took me to a storefront off Connecticut Avenue. It was a…

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“I looked around the property. “It’s a lot different here now, with the primary in custody and the lifter about to be…

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“In my twenties I was in Austin, Texas, finishing up yet another degree. I’d always loved hiking and, sick of the sedentary…

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“The government’s Intelligence Assessment Department is a very small federal agency with very large computers, located in Sterling, Virginia. The IAD’s purpose…

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“I paused to listen too. Dogs track by smell first, then sound and then sight. Humans are different but hearing comes second…

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“Joanne’s federal government employment history had been hidden very efficiently, of course. DuBois hadn’t found anything specific about what the woman or…

— Jeffery Deaver

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

— Jeffery Deaver

“And him?” I looked toward the revived guard. Freddy said, “Wants a lawyer like a baby wants a bottle.”

— Jeffery Deaver

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

— Jeffery Deaver

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

— Jeffery Deaver

“It's a tough life, she'd said. "It's the little things that get us through the day.”

— Jeffery Deaver

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

— Jeffery Deaver

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

— Jeffery Deaver

“eager’ and ‘anxious’ aren’t the same, or how ‘disinterested’ doesn’t mean ‘uninterested.”

— Jeffery Deaver

“Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, / He who travels fastest who travels alone...”

— Jeffery Deaver

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

— Jeffery Deaver