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Quotes About Thriller

Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.
~ Mark Billingham
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
Solitude Creek, a Kathryn Dance thriller
~ Jeffery Deaver
What do you think this is, a Matthew Reilly novel?" "Whether
~ Jeremy Robinson
I want to do an action film, I would love to do a period drama, a biopic, a crime story.
~ Tisca Chopra
Rebus drank his coffee and felt his head spin. He was feeling like the detective in a cheap thriller, and wished that he could turn to the last page and stop all his confusion, all the death and the madness and the spinning in his ears.
~ Ian Rankin
They visited a bookshop and each bought a paper-back thriller to read in bed.
~ Unknown
Tim says he never suggested a historical romance. If I did write one nobody would read it. But why not try my hand at a detective story – a thriller with a murder and buried treasure, etc. – he will help me with it if I like.
~ D.E. Stevenson
Usually, you see this play as a guy who can't make up his mind, but our version is more of a revenge thriller than a man who is pontificating what he should do next. I've never seen a 'Hamlet' this big, this exciting, with this many cast members; it's quite a spectacle.
~ David Denman
I loved 'Jaws.' I think that is not really a horror film, but it made me afraid of the ocean for a very long time.
~ James Wan
part spy thriller, part cultural and political reclamation, The Sympathizer
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot.
~ Jacob Latimore
Bite Me!-Shane Collins to Eve Rosser. The Morganville Vampire Series
~ Rachel Caine
Joanna Rand
~ Dean Koontz
Pathoformic.
~ Dean Koontz
Sheriff Hayden Eckman
~ Dean Koontz
NOT DEAD A chill swept down her back.
~ Dean Koontz
bloodstream
~ Dean Koontz
Saw' definitely had an edge to it that wasn't American.
~ Leigh Whannell
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
That's Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'!" Andrea shouted. "I've seen that video!"* "Noooooooo!" shouted Ms. Cuddy. "Not 'Thriller'!
~ Dan Gutman
I might be a thriller writer, but I know all about romance." "That's pretty obvious from your love life," the kid sassed back. "Oh, wait. You don't have one.
~ Unknown
When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
~ Barry Eisler
With the police thriller genre, people come to it with an expectation. It allows you to get away with a bit of violence, edginess, darkness.
~ Jed Mercurio