"I’ve always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry." ― Jeffery Deaver Topic(s): Poetry More From Jeffery Deaver "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." "Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories." "I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge." More In Poetry "None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."― Edith Hamilton "For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts."― John Drinkwater "The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical."― William Shenstone