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Jeffery Deaver Quotes

American - Writer | May 6, 1950 -

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

Challenge Writing Meaning Important

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

Work Alone You Need Level Some

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

Live Write Books Them Readers

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.

Time Commitment Society Busy Want

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.

Ending End Surprise Garden Find Big

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

Book Easy Down Write Sit Percent

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

Life Poetry My Life Young Always

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

Challenge Together Words Poetry Go

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.

Poetry Writing You Living Poet Get

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

Music World Tough Think You Ten

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