Top 34 Quotes by Jeffery Deaver

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

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

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.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

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

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

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

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

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.