Jeffery Deaver

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

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

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

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.

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.