Jeffery Deaver
Jeffery Deaver
Jeffery Deaver is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling novelist. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Wolfe Award, and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 May 1950
CityGlen Ellyn, IL
I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.
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.
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.
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.
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.
In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.
I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.
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.