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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

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

— Jeffery Deaver

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I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#being #child #does #dollar #finding

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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

— Jeffery Deaver

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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

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In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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

— Bill Vaughan

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