Blood Quote by Lisa Unger

A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed…

— David Morrell

Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable…

— Ted Dekker

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

— Christopher Rice

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

— Kate Mosse

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

— James Frey

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

In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting - I…

— Hank Phillippi Ryan

It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It…

— Roger Ebert

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've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.

— Claude Lelouch

I've always been a fan of books that create an interesting blend of fact and fiction - whether it's Norman Mailer, or 'The Short…

— Mark Boal

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