"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."

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"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."

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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same."

Marty Rubin, American Author

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"It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word."

Kevin Kline, American Actor

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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

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"Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other."

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"My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie."

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"We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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Explore more quotes by Jeffery Deaver

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

Writing

"I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block."

Creativity

"Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself."

Writing

"Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with."

Time

"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."

Technology

"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."

Books

"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose."

Writing

"Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence."

Crime

"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."

Responsibility

"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."

Books