The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire. Jeffery Deaver More Quotes by Jeffery Deaver More Quotes From Jeffery Deaver 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. Jeffery Deaver back-alleys mean thinking I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important. Jeffery Deaver important challenges writing I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book. Jeffery Deaver eight months book In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. Jeffery Deaver suspense-novels subplots conflict The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part. Jeffery Deaver down-and writing book In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract. Jeffery Deaver different fundamentals two She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted. Jeffery Deaver reflecting-back people years We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments. Jeffery Deaver regret life years And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it. Jeffery Deaver life-changing fighting littles Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have. Jeffery Deaver be-you ought sometimes That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone. Jeffery Deaver stones doe past When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level. Jeffery Deaver working-alone levels needs 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. Jeffery Deaver girl doe writing For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story. Jeffery Deaver thrillers stories Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories. Jeffery Deaver tradition detectives stories Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise. Jeffery Deaver twists garden book People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful memories, the regrets may be fewer but stand out more prominently, glowing coals that we can never quite extinguish, try though we might Jeffery Deaver regret memories past It's becoming apparent that I like bad boys. That's one of my problems. They've all been bad boys. You're one too. You're a bad boy. But, I think you're a good bad boy. Jeffery Deaver becoming boys thinking Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere. Jeffery Deaver congress too-much I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading. Jeffery Deaver reading writing thinking
