Jeffery Deaver Quotes - Page 2

People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Six Seconds is a great read. Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe, author Mofina has penned a big, solid international thriller that grabs your gut -- and your heart -- in the opening scenes and never lets go.

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

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

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

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.

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

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

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.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

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.

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

I've worked for law firms, I've worked for corporations, and for the past 20 years, I've been writing working for myself, and believe me it's a lot better. That's a big part of the James Bond panache, that you're responsible, 100 percent responsible, for the success or failure of your mission in life, whatever it is.

Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today.

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.

In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my obligation to the readers.

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

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.