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Imagine a world where everything is free, then seek counseling. That’s too much death to be thinking about. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #humor #money #death

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'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

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#after #developer #names #out #streets

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

#best #books #care #characters #driven

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again. ↗

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

#funeral #death

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

#coaster #describe #exciting #give #i

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

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#conform #hear #i #i can #i wish

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#gratitude #hope #how #insects #our