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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

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

— 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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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

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Art is the most beautiful of all lies. ↗

— Claude Debussy

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The more we have the less we own. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

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There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. ↗

— Claude Debussy

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