Firsts Quote by Leonard Maltin

I grew up reading thrillers. Honestly, I was always drawn to the very detailed ones like Patricia Cornwell. I love details.

— Karin Slaughter

Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story.…

— Ralph Macchio

“Blake Crouch is the author of over a dozen bestselling suspense, mystery, and horror novels. His short fiction has appeared in numerous short story…

— Blake Crouch

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

— Kate Mosse

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

— Lee Child

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

— Charles Stross

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I…

— Ben Mezrich

“Story is the greatest human mystery." Alex Miller, author, at BRWF 2014”

— Alex Miller

Typically, I have a fairly good grip on the plot of a suspense novel before I set about writing it. I must know beforehand…

— Sandra Brown

I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I am such…

— Larry Fessenden

I'm really into kind of a 'Sixth Sense' type of movie - mysteries, thrillers a little bit.

— Shaun Livingston

I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of…

— Barry Eisler