Jeffery Deaver

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

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

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

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

"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."