Jeffery Deaver Quotes & Sayings

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

“Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.”

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

“Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.”

“Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.”

“To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.”

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

“If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.”

“For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.”

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