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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.
Jeffery Deaver
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Jeffery Deaver
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 1
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Glen Ellyn
Illinois
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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