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Top 120 Jeffery Deaver Quotes (2024 Update)

Jeffery Deaver Quote: “The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that’s the easy part.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those’re both illusions – memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that’s completely real is this one instant of the present – and that’s constantly changing from imagination to memory. So, see? Most of our life’s illusory.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “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.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “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.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “I also try very hard to create characters – both heroes and villains – with psychological depth.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “It’s a tough life, she’d said. “It’s the little things that get us through the day.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “Whatever else you could say about Jason Westerfield, grass didn’t grow under the man’s feet. A.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “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.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn’t worth the fight to fix it.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. – ARISTOTLE.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “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 Quote: “Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “I’m really not the cold fish everyone thinks I am.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “Family is about love and affection but about friction and separation, too. Yet, with work and luck, the distances – geographic and emotional – can be shrunk, even made to vanish.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “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 Quote: “But game theory only works when the rules are clearly set out ahead of time. In the Nash bargaining game here, neither of the players was aware of another rule presently at work: that what they were bargaining over – me – might be a player in the game too. As.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “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 Quote: “In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals – humanised animals – triumphs of vivisection.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “Depression depleted your energy; the main cause of suicide was a deadly fusion of hopelessness, anxiety and panic.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “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.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “Henry Loving stimulates the amnesia gene. But it’s also true most people are simply extremely unobservant. Freddy.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “I’m not your proverbial worst nightmare because nightmares aren’t real and I am more real than anybody wants to admit.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates – a very good game, by the way – I can watch people as they choose their strategy and note how they respond to something I’ve done. Even.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “I’ve often said that there’s no such thing as writer’s block, the problem is idea block.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “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.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “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 Quote: “You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “RIP, Rest in Peace, though what’s the point of that? What else’re the dead going to be doing? It’s a better message than Good Luck, don’t you think?”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “Rhyme’s eyes closed. His head dipped. But only a few millimeters. As with most great men, Lincoln Rhyme’s gestures of defeat were very subtle.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “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.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “I pressed the ignition button and the engine came to life. Our cars have special mufflers to deaden the exhaust sound but there’s nothing you can do about a starter. Carter.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “Never kill an animal but for three reasons: for food or hide, for defense, for mercy.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “People want to avoid the past. I suppose that’s natural. When we tally up all we’ve said and done over the years, despite the wonderful memories, the regrets may be fewer but stand out more prominently, glowing coals that we can never quite extinguish, try though we might.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “The best part about Omar was that he wasn’t simply a decoy. Surrounding the robot was a grid of ultraviolet and microwave beams. When Loving or his partner, presumably from some distance, took up position and fired the typical three-burst round into Omar’s head, empty and inexpensively replaceable, a computer would instantly correlate trajectory, speed and GPS coordinates and indicate on our handhelds where the shooter was, down to three feet. Would.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “Time transcends morality.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “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.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “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.”
Jeffery Deaver Quote: “I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.”
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