Answer Quote by Jeffery Deaver

My number one goal as a thriller writer is to entertain you. But I've got a chance to not only entertain people, but have…

— Brad Thor

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 am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity,…

— 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 am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think…

— Christopher Rice

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

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

— Jay Asher

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

I would quite like to become a mainstream thriller writer, obviously, because I enjoy writing those stories, and it is the best way to…

— Sarah Pinborough

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

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

— Jordan Peele