American Quote by John Burdett

As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant.

— David Morrell

In India, we don't read thrillers; we read authors.

— Ravi Subramanian

There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does generate a…

— Michelle Dean

The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic…

— John Updike

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

— Kate Mosse

I'm just happy to have some American readers - enough that it's a viable proposition for my books to appear there.

— Alastair Reynolds

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and…

— Hope Davis

This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.

— Christopher Rice

My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors,…

— David Edelstein

I myself wouldn't want to read a magazine that focuses solely on a small part of the literary field or of the popular culture…

— Toni Jerrman

Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood to read.…

— William Zinsser

American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

— Ang Lee