Thriller Quotes

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not. (Thomas Perry)
I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that. View quote
Andrew Pyper
The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity. View quote
Alex Berenson
As far as writing and directing, I'm very focused on the thriller genre. View quote
Jordan Peele
I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while. View quote
Kate Hudson
The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century. View quote
Ken Follett
An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit. View quote
Ken Follett
Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers. View quote
Ken Follett
I made the decision that I didn't want to spend my life in rooms and write about rooms, or else make books that are researched constructs. I think you do have to get out there and live it. Thriller and genre writers seem to understand this. View quote
Lawrence Osborne
I used to dress up like Michael Jackson. I didn't have the glove, but I had a red jacket like in Thriller. View quote
James Bay
I prefer thrillers but when it's thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films. (Cecile de France)
I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film. View quote
David Ginola
If youre going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like Purple Rain and Thriller and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds. View quote
Dave Sitek
I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven. View quote
Emily Watson
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader. View quote
Garry Disher
In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be. View quote
John McTiernan
It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you. View quote
Louise Jameson
The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques. View quote
Martin Bashir
Most horror films fail to scare me. I think 'The Ring' plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper. View quote
Martin Henderson
I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho. View quote
Valorie Curry
Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller. (Wesley Morris)
I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I dont think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok? View quote
John Burdett
It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another. View quote
Rachel Weisz
As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul. View quote
Rachel Weisz
Sour Grapes is a comedy about things that aren't funny. It reminded me of Crash, an erotic thriller about things no one finds erotic. The big difference is that David Cronenberg, who made Crash, knew that people were not turned on by auto accidents. Larry David, who wrote and directed Sour Grapes, apparently thinks people are amused by cancer, accidental castration, racial stereotypes and bitter family feuds... The more I think of it, the more Sour Grapes really does resemble Crash (except that Crash was not a bad film). Both movies are like watching automobile accidents. Only one was intended to be. View quote
Roger Ebert