Art Quote by David Mitchell

“The Ghost of Sir Felix Finch whines, "But it's been done a hundred times before!"--as if there could be anything not done a hundred…

— David Mitchell

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

— Brigid Brophy

“And there are still a number of people around who say that Hammett didn't write detective stories at all-merely hard-boiled chronicles of mean streets…

— Raymond Chandler

“I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons…

— William Faulkner

“It would be interesting to compare Tarkovsky’s work with the Hollywood commercial rewritings of novels which have served as bases for movies: Tarkovsky does…

— Slavoj Žižek

The guy that I worked on 'Thriller ' was a genius and he was 20 years old, but it was like working with a…

— John Landis

“Never underestimate a writer's vanity, especially that of a mediocre writer. (The Angel's Game)”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“No shame in having a ghostwriter," Storm said. "Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the…

— Richard Castle

“A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but…

— Theodor W. Adorno

“The great artists of finance like Morgan and Rockefeller weren't deflected. They wanted and got money, just simple money. What they did with it…

— John Steinbeck

I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a…

— Joel Edgerton