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

— Lee Child

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

— Lee Child

Instead of writing thrillers to pay for my train bills, I was actually now going to medical school in order to have something to…

— Michael Crichton

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

— John Updike

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

— Lisa Scottoline

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

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

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

I love thrillers, and I always have.

— Kenneth Branagh

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

Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one…

— James Patterson

As far as writing and directing, I'm very focused on the thriller genre.

— Jordan Peele