Quotes About The Thriller Genre

#1. I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.

Valorie Curry

#2. The thriller genre in general, it's total foreign ground for me.

Katie Aselton

#3. I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

Dan Brown

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

Christopher Rice

#5. The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

Ken Follett

#6. I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.

Gillian Flynn

#7. We must prove our predictions about the future with action.

George Jackson

#8. Sometimes, you have to do what's best for you, otherwise you're no use to anyone. Nothing good would have come from dragging it out any longer.

Zayn Malik

#9. Although I love all genres, I really love to play in two main arenas: Comedy and Thriller/Horror. In either genre I love playing flawed, layered characters that are actively fighting to achieve something in the story.

Kyle Cassie

#10. I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.

Peter Gay

#11. My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.

Emily Giffin

#12. So it is precisely our allergy to repetition in worship that has undercut the counterformative power of Christian worship - because all kinds of secular liturgies shamelessly affirm the good of repetition.

James K.A. Smith

#13. You must be prepared and know the
reason why you dance.

Thomas Yellowtail

#14. I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book that flirted with thriller and fantasy and even science fiction. I wanted the coming-of-age story and the love story to be about "outsiderdom" - one of the themes I am most interested in.

Porochista Khakpour

#15. Creativity is a commodity and derives its value only in how energy is spent.

Mary Deal

#16. The universe really is motion & nothing else.

Socrates

#17. I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.

Danielle Panabaker

#18. The girl might have an unsettling crying problem, but she was pure steel.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#19. 'Among Friends' was really well written and had strong characters, and while all the elements were there to make it a great genre film, it also left room for me to put a creative flair on it that wasn't your typical slasher or psychological thriller.

Danielle Harris

#20. If I had stayed purely a horror writer or thriller writer, I might have more of a presence in those particular genres, and I'd certainly have more individual titles to market, since it's much easier to write pure genre fiction than it is to create something different.

Chet Williamson

#21. I don't know if I necessarily fit in the action-thriller genre, but I'd love to do something where I could actually kick some butt and then tell a few jokes. That would be awesome! That would be my dream job.

Kathleen Rose Perkins

#22. God knows the hour of each person's passing. Whatever we did or didn't do for someone we loved, the timing of his or her departure was God's alone. "Thy will be done" is more than a prayer request. It's a forgone conclusion.

Liz Curtis Higgs

#23. Thomas Pynchon surely inaugurated or crystallized a new genre in 1963 when he published 'V.' The seriocomic mystery or thriller with one foot set in the present and one in various historical eras received its postmodern baptism from Pynchon.

Paul Di Filippo

#24. My dad, for the first 15 years of my career, on every visit he made to a play or a film set, would find the oldest person on set and say, 'Do you think my son has a future?'

Kenneth Branagh

#25. I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.

Jamie Bell

#26. If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.

Djuna Barnes

#27. For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if the mainstream is not a genre, then it must necessarily embrace all kinds of writing: romance, adventure, horror, thriller, crime, and, yes, science fiction.

James Patrick Kelly

#28. As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

Daniel Day-Lewis

#29. Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good.

William, Saroyan

#30. You don't become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.

Charles M. Blow