Thriller Writers Quotes

#1. I'm nothing if not an optimist.

David Letterman

#2. To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.

Alan Joshua

#3. Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

Ken Follett

#4. Evil communications corrupt good manners.

Charles Dickens

#5. I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.

Christopher Rice

#6. Writers are alphabet artists. The blank page becomes their canvas as they paint pictures with words.

Barbara Case Speers

#7. God works in mysterious ways. Sometimes he uses anonymous people.

Khaled Talib

#8. An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

Ken Follett

#9. Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

Fritz Leiber

#10. I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.

Andrew Pyper

#11. If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.

Jack Canfield

#12. I think all artists struggle to represent the geometry
of life in their own way, just like writers deal with
archetypes. There are only so many stories that you can
tell, but an infinite number of storytellers.

Henry Mosquera

#13. I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.

Harlan Coben

#14. The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.

Howard Fast

#15. I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.

Ty Pennington

#16. Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

Jo Nesbo

#17. WRITING THROUGH FIRE IS AN AUTHOR'S JOURNEY.

Victoria A. Young

#18. I'd hate to meet one of those thriller writers in person.

Blake Crouch

#19. Thriller writers see a rose colored world through dark tinted glasses.

Carl Henegan

#20. I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.

Maeve Binchy

#21. I'm less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you're guarded.

Neil Peart

#22. 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

#23. Veterans and remarkable rookies. International Thriller Writers, Inc. (ITW) cofounder, David

Lee Child