Jeffery Deaver Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

• I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Writing, Eight, Months

• I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

  Jeffery Deaver

  Block, Writing, Ideas

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

  Jeffery Deaver

  Writing, Challenges, Together

• 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

  Writing, Long, Technique

• I've worked for law firms, I've worked for corporations, and for the past 20 years, I've been writing working for myself, and believe me it's a lot better. That's a big part of the James Bond panache, that you're responsible, 100 percent responsible, for the success or failure of your mission in life, whatever it is.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Believe, Writing, Past

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• Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Book, Writing, Reader

• Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Giving Up, Book, Writing

• The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Book, Writing, Down And

• Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Real, Writing, Pages Turning

• But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Girl, Writing, Doe

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

  Jeffery Deaver

  Writing, Way, Study

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

  Jeffery Deaver

  Writing, Challenges, Important

• When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Book, Writing, Eye

• I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Writing, House, Rooms

• Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Block, Book, Writing

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