Thriller Thrillers Quotes & Sayings

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

Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly addictive one. His publisher has described it as 'a thriller for people who don't like thrillers'. One newspaper put it thus: 'It is terribly written, its characters are cardboard cutouts, the dialogue is excruciating in places and, a bit like a computer manual, everything is overstated and repeated - but it is impossible to put the bloody thing down. — Dan Brown

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

We're Killers On The Keyboard — Cyndi Williams Barnier

In the world of contract killings, there is no arbitration. — Kenneth Eade

Listen, we got two stiffs and a river of red in a villa in Herne Bay ... — Rhys Chamberlain

No evil ever came from a woman's womb that wasn't placed there first by a man.' ... Tantie Neptune, Lucifer's Key by Charles A. Cornell, due 2013 — Charles A. Cornell

It was once said that to hide something from prying eyes you must place it where people can see it. — Micheal Rivers

In darkness there is death. — Bob Mayer

I am the prosecutor. I represent the state. I am here to present to you the evidence of a crime. Together you will weigh this evidence. You will deliberate upon it. You will decide if it proves the defendant's guilt. — Scott Turow

This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself. — Christopher Rice

Since my romance novels had all been thrillers as well, it wasn't such a leap for me to move into the straight thriller genre. The most difficult part, I think, was being accepted as a thriller writer. Once you've written romance, unfortunately, critics will never stop calling you a 'former romance author.' — Tess Gerritsen

I take writing very seriously. There's a lot of responsibility in putting blood in the veins of fictional characters. — Brooklyn Hudson

From anonymous bullying to anonymous murder for hire, the Internet had something for every sick taste. — Kenneth Eade

Joseph responded with a dark grin. "Finally - she sees me for what I am. — Claire E. Cruddas

As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant. — David Morrell

Gripping. Fascinating. Entrancing. The Vesuvius Isotope is 2013's Top Thriller! — Carolyn Hart

[Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should've just said no.
(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game) — Saul Tanpepper

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

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

The thriller genre in general, it's total foreign ground for me. — Katie Aselton

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

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

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth. — David Morrell

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

In Haven, old houses didn't settle. They carried a life of their own, and Blackwater farm was no exception. This was a house that would never be a home. The best they could hope for would be to co-exist with the ghosts of the past.
- The Silent Twin — Caroline Mitchell

I'm a fan of the European style, naturalistic thriller. — George Ratliff

For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law. — Dan Brown

It's the doubt that is really a major ingredient of the paranoid thriller. — Alice Winocour

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

Mystical organizations are only a crystallization of facts which can be found, in a more diffuse and less tangible form, in all strata of people. The degree of mystical, sentimental and sadistic feelings corresponds exactly to the degree of the disturbance of natural orgastic experience. Close observation of the audience of a trashy thriller or of a boxing match teaches more about these problems than a hundred handbooks of sexology. — Wilhelm Reich

She holds you like a whore in the night, but she'll take your soul and not think twice. — Micheal Rivers

Miss Lasqueti consumed mostly crime thrillers, which constantly seemed to disappoint her. I suspect that for her the world was more accidental than any book's plot. Twice I saw her so irritated by a mystery that she half rose from the shadow of her chair and flung the paperback over the railing into the sea. — Michael Ondaatje

My whole life changed after I drowned and died in the flood. — Kerry Alan Denney

Fear is a prison in which we place ourselves. You need only to press against the bars to realize that the door is always unlocked, and you are always free to leave. — Luna DeMasi

If you take real-life circumstances and take out all the pauses then you have a thriller. It has to be non-stop, high stakes and fascinating all the time. Real life is like that from time to time. — Hank Phillippi Ryan

What Stieg Larsson was up to - it was the Swedish guilt over World War II. All of our neighbors had the most terrible experiences with the bad forces, but Sweden didn't. I think we use the thrillers in a different way. We never write a thriller like 'Who is the murderer?' The big question in most of our thrillers is ... 'Why?' — Michael Nyqvist