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
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.
The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
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.
I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.
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
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.
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.
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.
I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.