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.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.