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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
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Jeffery Deaver
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 1
Crime Writer
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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Glen Ellyn
Illinois
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And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.
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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.
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In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.
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In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.
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So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.
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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.
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Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.
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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
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I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.
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For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
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My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
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People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.
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I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
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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.
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Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
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You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.
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