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.
Jeffery Deaver
I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before and little after.? Performers like fats waller, Sinatra, billie holiday, louis armstrong, rosemary clooney, ella, sammy Davis Jr, dean martin.. If the lyrics weren't stupid. Words were important.
music lyrics words
She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.
mystery crime thriller
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.
belief foolishness truth psychology
In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.
people
I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.
poetry life
Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.
life experience
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.
theend
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.
thetimes time society
thetimes time light
You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.
thetimes time music
I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.
heroes villain character
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.
character
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
work character
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
tradition science
The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.
fun
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