Top 100 Jeffery Deaver Quotes
#1. Stephen King is not a guy who keeps secrets the same goes and for Jeffery Deaver. But Jeffery Deaver creates characters and plays with them, Stephen King knows with who is playing, Jeffery Deaver just goes as how will happen, I think that and he doesn't know where the story lines will go.
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#3. 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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#4. When innocent people find themselves in situations that require the presence and protection of people like me, their reaction more often than not is as much bewilderment as fear. Mortality is tough to process. But
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#5. 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.
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#7. The greatest single threat to an investigator is unfamiliarity with his environment.
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#8. I needed somebody without any preconceived ideas. But I also needed somebody with a mind of her own." The contradictory qualities we seek in that elusive perfect lover. Strength and vulnerability, in equal measures.
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#9. You see tumbleweeds? You see cowpokes? Indians? This isn't the streets of Laredo.
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#10. Pulaski said, "Even psycho killers need to do home repairs. Probably it's not related to the case.
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#11. So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
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#12. I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
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#13. The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
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#14. In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.
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#15. 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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#16. Islands - of times when you're content, you don't think about the loss. Now it's like your world's underwater. All of it. But the water goes down and the islands come up. The water'll be there always but you'll find dry land
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#17. 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.
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#18. 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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#21. Criminalistics doesn't exist in a vacuum. The more you know about your environment, the better you can apply- (This quote was never completed in the book because Rhyme stopped abruptly at the end of it. I really wish he had finished his thought.)
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#22. I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.
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#23. Because of her frenetic nature and dancing mind, she chatted up a storm with the subjects she interviewed, who ended up overwhelmed or intimidated. Or captivated.
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#25. 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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#26. Chris Teasley came on. She said, "Um, Agent Corte." "Officer Corte," I corrected. My organization is an office, not a bureau or an agency. When Congress gave Abe the money that's what he created.
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#27. Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.
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#28. I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
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#29. I'm not your proverbial worst nightmare because nightmares aren't real and I am more real than anybody wants to admit.
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#30. You put a certain amount of effort into stitching a jacket or dress and you get the garment you expect. There's no mystery. But you put a thousand times more effort into raising your child and the result is the opposite of what you hope and dream for. This seemed so unfair.
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#31. People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.
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#32. He believed there was nothing essentially unAmerican about greed or lust - hey, those qualities were encouraged everywhere from Wall Street to Capitol Hill.
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#33. I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.
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#35. 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.
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#36. Calm, Corte. Whatever happens you have to stay calm. When you look into your opponent's face, when you talk to him, it should be like you're discussing cornflakes. Never more emotional than that. . . . Emotion's deadly. What
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#37. The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography.
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#38. In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.
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#41. I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.
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#42. A few were journalists and one a novelist, who wanted to get it right. (Rhyme welcomed his presence; he himself was the subject of a series of novels based on cases he'd run and had written the author on several occasions about misrepresentations of real crime scene work. "Must you sensationalize?")
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#43. The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.
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#44. The human creature is so astonishing, but count on it before anything else to be just that-a creature. A laughing animal, a dangerous one, a clever one, a scared one, but always acting for a reason-a motive that will move the beast towards its desires.
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#45. As a matter of fact, yeah, they were foolproof. The problem is that you don't have to protect yourself against fools. You have to protect yourself against people like me.
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#46. Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.
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#47. 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.
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#48. Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today.
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#49. Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
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#50. didn't seem to be the nickname sort. Beautiful people rarely were. 'Let's
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#51. But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.
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#52. 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
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#53. Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.
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#54. I said evenly, "Loving's low-tech. Usually he uses sandpaper and alcohol on sensitive parts of the body. Doesn't sound too bad but it works real well." I
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#56. As I'd listened in on the conversation, I'd noted what seemed to be disappointment in Loving's voice. I wondered if that was due to his reluctance to cease playing this game with me personally. But that was perhaps projecting my feelings onto him. I
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#57. I like watches from that era. Back then a watch was power. Not many people could afford one. The owner of a watch was a man who controlled time ... chains and fobs were invented so that even when a man carried a watch in his pocket, you could still see he owned one
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#58. I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
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#59. We have to assume Loving's found your account. If you read messages or send any, it's possible for him to correlate time with router and server traffic in the area here.
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#60. For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
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#61. Hollow then produced Kobel's tax returns for the past three years.
When Ringling objected, Hollow said to Judge Rollins, "Your Honor, a man who files a tax return is of sound mind."
"That's debatable," said the ultraconservative judge, drawing laughter from the courtroom.
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#62. The history of domestic terrorism is long. The Haymarket bombing occurred in Chicago in 1886.
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#63. The pain, you know. It's one hell of a way to die.
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#64. Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.
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#65. I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.
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#66. And if it took awhile, that means she was in pain for a long time.
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#67. His rules were unencumbered by my constraints - the Constitution and the laws promulgated thereunder. Still,
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#68. Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction ... transcends the historical thriller.
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#69. Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.
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#71. The workbench was filled with glassware, books, syringes, tattooing machine parts, plastic bags, tools. Dozens of books on toxins and thousands of downloaded Internet documents,
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#72. Somebody you busted?" Amanda asked matter-of-factly.
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#73. Always thinking. This was one of the reasons he loved her.
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#74. Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.
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#75. Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.
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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. 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
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#79. But, I added, duBois had found no evidence of any malfeasance. She'd spoken to dozens of officers and administrators within the department, armed with her pen and calculator. What Westerfield and Teasley had found, the money shifting from one account to another, seemed to duBois to be innocent.
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#81. 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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#82. To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.
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#83. 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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#84. Love, son, is not manifest in the gift of gadgets or coddling foods or rooms of one's own. Love shows itself in discipline and example and sacrifice - even giving up one's life.
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#85. You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.
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#86. You bet they did. Dellray was there. You should've seen him. He ordered every other case put on hold and said if metallurgy report wasn't in your hands ASAP there'd be one mean mother - you get the picture - reaming their - you get the rest of the picture.
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#87. as old as we may be in flesh, we are always young in the bone
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#88. This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. - ARISTOTLE
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#89. 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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#91. Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.
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#92. I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.
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#93. eager' and 'anxious' aren't the same, or how 'disinterested' doesn't mean 'uninterested.
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#94. Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, / He who travels fastest who travels alone...
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#95. Boys groped, boys dissed, boys put you down. But it was the girls who made you bleed
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#96. The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals - humanised animals - triumphs of vivisection.
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#97. The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.
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#98. When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.
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#99. That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.
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#100. 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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