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Jeffery Deaver

"I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry."

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"I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry."

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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

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"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

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"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

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"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

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"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."

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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"

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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

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"My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about."
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"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."
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"In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures."
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"I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important."
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"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."
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"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose."
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"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."
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"Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence."
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"I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block."
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