Top 100 Quotes About Thrillers
#1. This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.
Christopher Rice
#2. I was reaching for one of the handles when I heard Heidler's voice from behind me. 'It would not be wise to enter. It is a bad time to disturb the dead.
Micheal Rivers
#3. I'd love to work with Tarantino, Scorsese, Sofia Coppola - all of them! I love thrillers and action movies. I love good horror films. I watched them so much when I was younger that I find it impossible to get scared.
Cara Delevingne
#4. So exquisitely perfect was the darkness of the heavens above that one would have difficulty believing it was a prison to the passengers and crew of The Black Witch.
Micheal Rivers
#5. If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
Jennifer Weiner
#6. The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.
Harlan Coben
#7. The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it.
Ben Midland
#8. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
Isabel Allende
#9. Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.
Otto Penzler
#10. There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
Hari Kunzru
#11. Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.
Brad Thor
#12. The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived ... Out of print for years and years, Butcher's Moon is the ultimate Parker novel, best read as an installment in the series as a whole but comprehensible and wholly satisfying on its own.
Terry Teachout
#13. My mama always said, You can always ask. The worst they can do is say no. But I don't think Mama was thinking about revenge and murder when she dealt out that piece of homespun advice
Catrina Burgess
#14. I read a lot fewer thrillers than I think people assume I do.
Chelsea Cain
#15. A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them ...
William Petersen
#16. Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.
Ben Midland
#17. A good lawyer is part con man, part priest
promising riches, threatening hell. My ethical rules are simple. I won't lie to the court or let a client do it. But I've never been in this position. How far would I go for a woman who mattered? Is there anything I wouldn't do to win?
Paul Levine
#18. 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
#20. I think I'll stick with psychological thrillers.
Sara Shepard
#21. I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.
Joe Abercrombie
#22. I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.
Olivier Megaton
#23. There are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first.
Katie Aselton
#24. Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once."
Macbeth. Act III Sc. 4, Line 119
Jess Waid
#25. The blind cannot see, but nothing escapes him. The others can see but them eludes the things the blind can see.
Ben Midland
#26. Gripping. Fascinating. Entrancing. The Vesuvius Isotope is 2013's Top Thriller!
Carolyn Hart
#27. In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - or spy novels, if you prefer - had been the domain of male authors for decades.
Gayle Lynds
#28. I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.
Celia Johnson
#29. I think it's very interesting for a director that enjoys thrillers and mysteries like I do to have the challenge to do that.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#30. I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
Vera Farmiga
#31. Joseph responded with a dark grin. "Finally - she sees me for what I am.
Claire E. Cruddas
#32. Dale Mayer is a prolific multi-published writer. She's best known for her Psychic Visions series. Besides her romantic suspense/thrillers, Dale also writes paranormal
Dale Mayer
#33. The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.
Lawrence Kasdan
#34. The route to his hotel had been committed to memory a long time ago. From the overflowing trashcan on the corner to the feral cats that frequented the dumpsters behind the nearby shawarma shop, Jamison knew every detail.
Christian F. Burton
#35. Yet they were so tempting. Because they all had those blissful views of the river. Mum liked to sit on her balcony, reading Swedish thrillers, drinking supermarket Chardonnay.
S.K. Tremayne
#36. From anonymous bullying to anonymous murder for hire, the Internet had something for every sick taste.
Kenneth Eade
#38. I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity ... I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop.
Paul Levine
#39. My intent is not to inflame Muslims but to entertain readers of great thrillers. At the end of the day, I want people to see a good protagonist struggle against serious odds and do so with courage and honor and integrity.
Brad Thor
#40. I needed to know, Jesse. I needed to get inside his head. To find this son of a bitch, I need to get inside his head. - Stephanie Carovella
Nina D'Angelo
#41. I dream big, baby. I want to do thrillers, I want to do smart David Lynch-type mysteries.
Gina Rodriguez
#42. Last time I was on the welcome Wagon, I was holding some guy by the balls for 15 minutes while the inspector explained why should leave (Birmingham) and go home... It were really painful.
I bet it was.
'Yeah I got terrible cramp in me fingers, but he were very attentive.
Jim McGrath
#43. I take writing very seriously. There's a lot of responsibility in putting blood in the veins of fictional characters.
Brooklyn Hudson
#44. I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.
Daniel Suarez
#45. I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.
James Patterson
#46. The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.
M.J. Rose
#47. I'm actually a very dark person, so I really want to get into some really dark roles, maybe some thrillers. I've never done one of those, so I think I'd really want to get into that, but definitely something that would get lots of people talking.
Cierra Ramirez
#48. You killed 'em both, babe. They're both dead," he babbled, shaking.
"I had to," she said, pointing the gun at the corpse lying at her feet. "That one saw me naked.
Marc Rainer
#49. He brought the Glock up to shoulder height. He had one up the snout giving him fourteen rounds of influence.
Norm Applegate
#50. A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.
David Morrell
#51. When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore.
Peter Weller
#52. Look realistically at espionage thrillers again. They're not only alive, readers are excited about them.
Gayle Lynds
#53. When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire.
Andrew O'Hagan
#54. 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
#55. One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.
Natsuo Kirino
#56. The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.
Eli Roth
#57. After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers.
Lilly Wachowski
#58. I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.
Terry Hayes
#59. I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.
Monica Bellucci
#60. No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.
Keith Houghton
#62. The last vestiges of consciousness tell her she has just witnessed her own murder, all she ever was and hoped to be is gone.
Terry Hayes
#63. I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
Charles Stross
#64. Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
Ken Follett
#65. I've always been a huge fan of thrillers like David Fincher's 'Se7en.' I am fascinated by the disturbing, dark underbelly of life. I find such films deeply engrossing. They delve deep into the human psyche, and that's a place worth exploring.
Emraan Hashmi
#66. Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
Lisa Scottoline
#67. The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.
Diane Ladd
#68. Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.
John McTiernan
#69. I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high school and getting a G.E.D. But I still read a lot. Thrillers and war novels, mostly, along with the occasional literary novel from my parents' bookshelf.
Philipp Meyer
#70. You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.
Eriq La Salle
#71. Mysteries are like cayenne for the brain. The senses do pick up. Who was Jack the Ripper? Who killed Judge Crater? How did I burn through my paycheck so fast? Such questions can intrigue or infuriate, but the mind snaps to attention. from the Introduction
Rex Stout
#72. Words and laws in this world made place for signs and symbols.
Ben Midland
#73. On a deeper level, I think many stories - especially thrillers - can be a journey to the heart of darkness.
Terry Hayes
#74. 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 stories you love to read.
Barry Eisler
#76. Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
Isabel Allende
#77. Why did I decide to write cyber thrillers? Because we've gone from the Cold War to the Code War.
Thomas Waite
#78. Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
M.J. Rose
#79. The ultimate downfall of the computerized holographic receptionist was that there was no amount of flattery, flirtation or chocolate that could convince one to lie for you.
Scott B. Pruden
#80. After about the age of 13, I was a romance addict. Still am, though I read just about every other genre as well. The only thing I really shy away from is political thrillers.
Kristan Higgins
#81. My favorite aerobic activity is reading steamy romantic thrillers. I figure an increased heart rate is an increased heart rate. Why quibble about methodology?
Linda Grimes
#82. There could be great thrillers or great dramas or great comedies made in that world but everyone's afraid of it. So you have to do them as these crazy little independent movies.
George Ratliff
#83. I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell
and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.
Bentley Little
#84. Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.
John McTiernan
#86. The professor's motive was in the grand scheme of things terribly petty " Greenwood said. ""Pilate's Cross" is inspired by the questions this terrible crime created but as a work of fiction it is set in a different place and time and has a more complex motive for the murders.
J. Alexander Greenwood
#87. It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter.
Philippe Claudel
#88. Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like 'The Exorcist', 'The Shining', even though they scare the living daylights out of me.
Emmanuelle Vaugier
#89. Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
Graham Greene
#90. For me, taking the sort of dry principles of the law and bringing them into contact with human beings ... it's like you jump into hyperspace. And everything that's dull about the books and the theory becomes provocative.
Michael Ponsor
#91. Listen, we got two stiffs and a river of red in a villa in Herne Bay ...
Rhys Chamberlain
#92. The situation that women were in, at the time, was something that Dumas doesn't really go into, but it's a great subject to look at. It's a great genre because you can do a lot. Sometimes in thrillers, you can really explore things, and it's the same in this genre.
Adrian Hodges
#93. In the world of contract killings, there is no arbitration.
Kenneth Eade
#94. It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question, "When will it be?"
David Hare
#95. I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.
Christopher Paolini
#96. I'd like to make character-based dramas. I end up writing thrillers a lot - these psychological character-based things with weird people doing horrible things to each other - coming to a theatre near you!
Joseph Mazzello
#97. What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.
Edward M. Lerner
#98. Suddenly, a high-pitched sound blasted into the room. The floor began shaking beneath her feet. She paused for a moment, wondering if she was causing this.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#99. I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
Kate Mosse
#100. Only God is the Giver and Master of Creativity and imagination because they are gifts that can only come from Him Alone!
Cheyenne Mitchell
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