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
People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.
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.
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.
In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.
Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.
People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful memories, the regrets may be fewer but stand out more prominently, glowing coals that we can never quite extinguish, try though we might
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
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.
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.
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