Quotes from Jeffery Deaver

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

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

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

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

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

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

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

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.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.

And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. —LOUIS-HECTOR BERLIOZ

It's becoming apparent that I like bad boys. That's one of my problems. They've all been bad boys. You're one too. You're a bad boy. But, I think you're a good bad boy.

Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those're both illusions – memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that's completely real is this one instant of the present – and that's constantly changing from imagination to memory. So, see? Most of our life's illusory.

People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.

But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.

The human creature is so astonishing, but count on it before anything else to be just that-a creature. A laughing animal, a dangerous one, a clever one, a scared one, but always acting for a reason-a motive that will move the beast towards its desires.

I needed somebody without any preconceived ideas. But I also needed somebody with a mind of her own." The contradictory qualities we seek in that elusive perfect lover. Strength and vulnerability, in equal measures.