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 DeaverI like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
Jeffery DeaverGenerally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.
Jeffery DeaverPeople with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.
Jeffery DeaverI liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
Jeffery DeaverI've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm working on a brief passage in a novel or brainstorming about an entire book-it's usually because I'm trying to shoehorn an idea into the passage or story where it has no place.
Jeffery Deaver