Thriller Quotes

102 quotes by 85 authors

For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. — Dan Brown
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller. — Dan Brown
For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all… — Dan Brown
I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board. — Sophia Bush
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila. — Muhammad Ali
The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes. — Julian Casablancas
I'd been a thriller reader all my life. — Lee Child
The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling. — Lee Child
The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end. — Lee Child
I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror,… — Harlan Coben
I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers… — Harlan Coben
The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's… — Harlan Coben
I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break… — Kate Hudson
Disturbing and intriguing. The Synchronicity Factor is much more than a page-turning thriller, for its remarkable plot is rooted in real science and real history. — Peter Lovesey
Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction… — Craig Shaw Gardner
Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of conspiracy. It's definitely… — Christopher Nolan
Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the… — Trent Jamieson
What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can't get lost in your own genius, which is… — Harlan Coben
The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has… — Ralph Harper
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories. — Agatha Christie

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