Top 41 Thriller Book Quotes
#1. A heart in love is a thriller book of many stories
Munia Khan
#2. I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.
Chuck Palahniuk
#3. A good book should make you laugh, cry or pee your pants. The best do all three!
G. Ernest Smith
#4. Usually we're on the same page. Other times I'm in a whole other book"
~ Arika Wolly
Arika Wolly
#5. Irish Spring," the third book in the
Derry Greene thriller series, is due
out later in 2015.
Jack Adler
#6. To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.
Sarah Addison Allen
#7. Use your intuition. Picture how things happen, why they happen. Don't stick rigidly to first impressions, and once you've read the rule book, throw it away. Better still, burn the bastard.
Andrew Barrett
#8. My father once told me that it's not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him.
Henry Mosquera
#9. What is my favorite part of book one? It would have to be the last chapter because that's when the consequences catch up to Eric and it became clear that what he considered fun and games for nearly a year almost got Tina killed.
E.J. Caulder
#10. Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.
S.W. Frank
#12. Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don't fall.
Henry Mosquera
#13. My number one goal as a thriller writer is to entertain you. But I've got a chance to not only entertain people, but have them close my book and be smarter having read it.
Brad Thor
#14. If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
Nancy Kress
#15. If this book is a thriller, it's also a requiem, the story of the last days of a great figure and the end of his movement.
Hampton Sides
#16. I never thought I was capable of writing a whole book until Ursula K. Le Guin, with whom I worked briefly in publishing, said, 'you already wrote one (referencing a screenplay), you just need to add the details.
E.L. Sayers
#17. The calm serenity of the breeze as it blows across the ocean releases the tangled web within my mind.
J. Kahele
#18. 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
#19. Life is truly a matter of choices, reactions, and actions...each and every choice is governed by our reactions which in turn affect our actions and consequently the future turn of events
Kapil Kumar Bhaskar
#20. When I started writing the third book, 'The Kill,' the intention was just to write a thriller, a crime novel for myself, really, in which there would be no body, no solution - where you would look at an event from different people's perspectives.
Richard House
#21. The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
Harlan Coben
#22. Things like this don't happen back in Libertyville, Illinois.
You don't get lost in the woods behind your house.
You don't get trapped inside a fortress-like wall ten feet tall.
Travis Thrasher
#24. If your like a powerful modern thriller with an historical core in the Scandinavian style of many separate threads which eventually come together, Purple Killing will grip you. It is my latest book and a companion to Hitler's First Lady, but in a very different style. Set equally in the US and UK.
Malcolm Blair-Robinson
#25. This is the right time
They are the right people
Will it be enough for mankind?
From "The Rishis: Book of Secrets.
Robert Delgado
#26. Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction novels could be this good.
Craig Shaw Gardner
#27. I've been thinking that you, me and Kristy should all have a sleepover or something like that. Wouldn't that be so cool! - Carol
Matthew Leeth
#29. My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen - numb.
J. Kahele
#30. You're forgetting ... we never get in trouble in that class. Remember I gave Mr. Hendry that lap dance last year. I'm thinking he's expecting one this year as well. - Carol
Matthew Leeth
#31. This book is like an engineering masterpiece, can't be bad ! No matter what it will always be the greatest of all.
Jeff Abbott
#32. Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.
Jeffery Deaver
#33. Any self-defense class worth its salt will tell you that
you don't pull out a weapon unless you intend to use it.
The same should apply to ballsy remarks.
Henry Mosquera
#34. It's getting a little chilly in here! Why don't we sit by the fireplace and I'll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys!
Angel Ramon Medina
#35. People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them.
Henry Mosquera
#36. Ego is like a mad elephant which is ridden by our blind heart and blind mind and which ultimately destroys our real selves
Kapil Kumar Bhaskar
#37. And so we continued to live in fear, hoping that we would not get caught. Fear had become our constant companion at this dreadful Lashkar-e-Taiba camp.
Vivek Pereira
#39. This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky ... Johnston is an excellent writer. You want to set this one down so you can take a breath, and keep reading
all at the same time.
Alan Cheuse
#40. A western audience might not appreciate 'Chanakya's Chant' because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day thriller that draws on a bedrock of history. My primary object is to entertain, not educate.
Ashwin Sanghi
#41. 'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime book that reads like fiction.
Lisa Unger
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