#ay

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. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#busy #buy #commitment #days #expensive

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

— Jeffery Deaver

#go #i #like #poetry #such

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

— Jeffery Deaver

#developed #i #interest #life #my life

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

#basic #command #craftsman #know #language

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#after #animal #back #day #each

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

— Jeffery Deaver

#admire #best #best way #learn #other

In opera, there is always too much singing. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#much #opera #singing #too #too much

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#art #beautiful #become #deception #events

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it. ↗

— Thomas Dekker

#buy #care #cast #day #drink

My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around. ↗

— Brooklyn Decker

#bike #built #camping #children #dirt