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Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
- Jeffery Deaver
#Back
#Forensic
#Science
#Tradition
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.
- Jeffery Deaver
#Best
#Find
#Style
#Trying
#Way
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.
- Jeffery Deaver
#Know
#Language
#Long
#Say
#Writing
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.
- Jeffery Deaver
#Block
#Often
#Problem
#Said
#Writer
The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
- Jeffery Deaver
#Admire
#Best
#Way
#Work
#Writing
When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.
- Jeffery Deaver
#Book
#Eyes
#I Can
#Picture
#Time
I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.
- Jeffery Deaver
#Anywhere
#Hotel
#House
#I Write
#Pretty
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
- Jeffery Deaver
#High School
#Newspaper
#Reporter
#School
I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.
- Jeffery Deaver
#Create
#Depth
#Hard
#Heroes
#Try
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
- Jeffery Deaver
#Challenge
#Important
#Meaning
#Writing
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.
- Jeffery Deaver
#Responsibility
#Ride
#Roller Coaster
In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.
- Jeffery Deaver
#About
#Conflict
#Relationships
#Suspense
In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.
- Jeffery Deaver
#More
#People
#Than
#Who
#Words
The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.
- Jeffery Deaver
#Book
#Down
#Easy
#Percent
#Sit
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
#Living
#Make
#Poet
#Poetry
#Writing
I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
- Jeffery Deaver
#Challenge
#Poetry
#Together
#Way
#Words
I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.
- Jeffery Deaver
#Always
#Life
#My Life
#Poetry
#Young
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