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

Ive always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry. – Jeffery Deaver

But one does not make living writing poetry unless youre a professor, and one frankly doesnt get a lot of girls as a poet. – Jeffery Deaver