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Jeffery Deaver

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Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.


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


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Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.


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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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The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.


— Jeffery Deaver


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The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.


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


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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.


— Jeffery Deaver


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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.


— Jeffery Deaver


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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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Did you know about Jeffery Deaver?

Three of Deaver's novels have been produced into films:
The Bone Collector (1999)
A Maiden's Grave as the TV film Dead Silence (1997)
The Devil's Teardrop (2010) also a TV film
Deaver also created the characters and—in a collaboration with 14 other noted writers—wrote the 17-part serial thriller The Chopin Manuscript narrated by Alfred Molina that was broadcast on Audible. One of his books The Blue Nowhere features criminal hackers (one using social engineering to commit murder) as well as a law enforcement computer crime unit. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Wolfe Award and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award.

His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world including The New York Times The Times Italy's Corriere della Sera The Sydney Morning Herald and The Los Angeles Times. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist.

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