Quotes from Jeffery Deaver

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, / He who travels fastest who travels alone...

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before and little after.  Performers like fats waller, Sinatra, billie holiday, louis armstrong, rosemary clooney, ella, sammy Davis Jr, dean martin... If the lyrics weren't stupid. Words were important.

As a matter of fact, yeah, they were foolproof. The problem is that you don't have to protect yourself against fools. You have to protect yourself against people like me.

I'm not your proverbial worst nightmare because nightmares aren't real and I am more real than anybody wants to admit.

This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. —ARISTOTLE

Criminalistics doesn't exist in a vacuum. The more you know about your environment, the better you can apply- (This quote was never completed in the book because Rhyme stopped abruptly at the end of it. I really wish he had finished his thought.)

WHEN YOU MOVE THEY CAN'T GETCHA 'A

Family is about love and affection but about friction and separation, too. Yet, with work and luck, the distances—geographic and emotional—can be shrunk, even made to vanish.

It's a tough life, she'd said. "It's the little things that get us through the day.

You see tumbleweeds? You see cowpokes? Indians? This isn't the streets of Laredo.

If they were expected," she shot back, "then they wouldn't be breakthroughs, now would they?

Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.

Inspiring isn't the same as plotting.

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

Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.

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.

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.

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.

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

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

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.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

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.