Top 34 Quotes by Jeffery Deaver

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

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

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.

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

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.

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