Blame Quote by Mahesh Manjrekar

Thrillers rely on certain archetypes and our familiarity with them is quietly driving all of the tension. So it becomes an interesting challenge from…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

At their best, thrillers not only entertain. Ideally they also reflect the society in which they are set, analyzing our fears and how we…

— David Morrell

It's interesting how thrillers reflect the times we live in.

— Peter Hitchens

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

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

I love thrillers, it's part of the emotion that triggers excitement and plays with the mind on the need to know what will happen…

— Pooja Batra

I think fantasy thrillers excite audiences as, inherently, people have a fascination for the unknown and the unexplained.

— Krystle D'Souza

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

— Lee Child

Every thriller needs a good bad guy; without a bad guy, there's no thriller.

— Michael Eklund

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

— Graham Greene

When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people.

— Fiona Barton

A thriller needs to hold the interest of the reader from the very beginning. It needs to engage with them, hold them in rapt…

— Ravi Subramanian