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
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.
For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story. - Jeffery Deaver
For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
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…
Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them. - Jeffery Deaver
Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.
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.
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.
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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