Jeffery Deaver

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

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

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

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.