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

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

- Jeffery Deaver

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

- Jeffery Deaver

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

- Jeffery Deaver

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

- Jeffery Deaver

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…

- Jeffery Deaver

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

- Jeffery Deaver

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

- Jeffery Deaver

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 pas…

- Jeffery Deaver