Compelling Quote by Hank Phillippi Ryan

In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself…

— Peter Temple

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that…

— Garry Disher

I do like crime thriller stories. That's because these stories have a lot of layers. There are always three sides to such stories... there…

— Pratik Gandhi

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

I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands…

— Andrew Gross

I believe thrillers work if the story is good. It is not easy to make a thriller because the audience is making their own…

— Sriram Raghavan

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

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

— Lee Child

I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be…

— Jo Nesbo

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

— James Frey

When a novel is based on an actual crime, it should do much more than loosely fictionalize it. The novel must stand alone as…

— Sarah Weinman

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The…

— Nigel Kneale