“But it works that way if it works.”
Source: Edge
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Famous Jeffery Deaver Quotes
Source: Twisted: The Collected Short Stories
“Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.”
“Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.”
Source: Edge: A Novel
Source: The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel
Source: The Bodies Left Behind: A Novel
Source: The Bone Collector
Source: The Bone Collector
“Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.”
Source: Edge
“You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.”
“People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.”
Source: The Coffin Dancer: A Novel
Source: Edge: A Novel
“I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.”
“I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.”
“I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.”
“I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.”
“I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block”
“Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.”
“In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.”
“Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.”
“The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.”
“The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.”
“In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.”
“So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.”