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- Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. — Thomas Carlyle
- To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. — Carl Sandburg
- The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. — Gustave Flaubert
- The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire. — Jeffery Deaver
- 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. — Jeffery Deaver
- The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part. — Jeffery Deaver