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Jeffery Deaver

"Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise."

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"Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise."

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Donna Grant

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

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Donna Grant

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

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Donna Grant

"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."

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Donna Grant

"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."

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Donna Grant

"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."

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Donna Grant

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."

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Donna Grant

"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."

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Donna Grant

"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."

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Donna Grant

"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."

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Donna Grant

"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."

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Jeffery Deaver
"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."

Blood

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Jeffery Deaver
"I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book."

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

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Jeffery Deaver
"Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them."

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Jeffery Deaver
"The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire."

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

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Jeffery Deaver
"I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge."

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Jeffery Deaver
"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."

Time

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

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Jeffery Deaver
"I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth."

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