Character Quote by Don Winslow

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

— Lee Child

The danger of writing a so-called thriller is that in your last 100 pages, all of these really interesting characters you've created are just…

— Noah Hawley

To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

— James Frey

I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows…

— F. Paul Wilson

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…

— Harlan Coben

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

— Graham Greene

If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.

— Karin Slaughter

Anybody who sits down to write, and they think 'thriller,' maybe shouldn't be thinking that way. Maybe we should be thinking 'novel,' maybe 'thriller'…

— David Morrell

A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed…

— David Morrell

In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting - I…

— Hank Phillippi Ryan

A thriller needs to hold the interest of the reader from the very beginning. It needs to engage with them, hold them in rapt…

— Ravi Subramanian

Thrillers rely on certain archetypes and our familiarity with them is quietly driving all of the tension. So it becomes an interesting challenge from…

— Oneohtrix Point Never