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.
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
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
You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher. - Jeffery Deaver
You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.
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
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…
I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge. - Jeffery Deaver
I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story. - Jeffery Deaver
For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have. - Jeffery Deaver
Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.
Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them. - Jeffery Deaver
Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.
When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level. - Jeffery Deaver
When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.
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
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…
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