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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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Jeffery Deaver
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 1
Crime Writer
Journalist
Lawyer
Novelist
Screenwriter
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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.
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I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.
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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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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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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.
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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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I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
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Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.
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I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm working on a brief passage in a novel or brainstorming about an entire book-it's usually because I'm trying to shoehorn an idea into the passage or story where it has no place.
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When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.
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In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.
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People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.
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Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.
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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.
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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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Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
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In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.
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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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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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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.
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