Top 34 Quotes by Jeffery Deaver

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

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.

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

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

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

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.