“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.” IfsMadeShowsWantedNamesFeltFictionNovelWrittenCrimeThrillersNorwegiansScandinaviansScandinaviaCrime NovelsRushdie Author:Jo Nesbo
“If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.” IfsMenWritingMightFictionMysteryHorrorThrillersSpeculative Fiction Author:Jennifer Weiner
“In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting - I distill the essence of the story until it's only the jewels of the tale - and leave in only the most compelling and exciting parts.” WritingStoriesFictionCrimeTvsEssenceExcitingTalesCompellingJewelsThrillersCrime Fiction Author:Hank Phillippi Ryan
“For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.” ChildrenLittlesBookThreeParentNaturalFictionFourWeekChildhoodHorrorLibraryLocalsCinemaSci FiThrillersRubberFoamStoolsNatural HistoryDevouringOrigami Author:David Nicholls
“In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about American movies, they go and see the thrillers, and Westerns, and science fiction, huge entertaining movies.” PeopleDreamFictionHugeNormalScience FictionSticksFranceRealisticEntertainingThrillersNormal LifeAmerican Movie Author:Berenice Bejo
“Even if you've sworn to yourself never to read vampire fiction again, do yourself the favor of reading Motherless Child. Glen Hirshberg has crafted a compelling, heartbreaking thriller full of character, grit, and sorrow. Bravo” IfsChildrenCharacterReadingFictionSorrowFavorsVampireCompellingGritHeartbreakingThrillersBravo Author:Christopher Golden
“Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.” FactsFictionHistoricalThrillersFact And Fiction Author:Jeffery Deaver
“I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.” WantBookTermFictionFantasyWrittenTroubleMysteryHeroHorrorOriginalsTraditionalThrillersPulpLove To Read Author:F. Paul Wilson
“My first obligation is to entertain but as far as science fiction goes, it's much easier to comment on today from another time because people then aren't focused on 'did you get the details right?' It's sort of a Trojan horse approach to ideas because it's wrapped in the future, it's wrapped in action, thriller.” PeopleFirstsIdeasTodayActionFictionEasierApproachHorseScience FictionDetailsFocusedObligationCommentThrillersAnother TimeTrojansTrojan Horse Author:Andrew Niccol
“I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.” NeedsPleasureFictionResearchOpeningGenreNonfictionChaptersThrillersFiction And NonfictionThriller Genre Author:Dan Brown
“I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger.” HandsFictionFantasyNovelHorrorShadowScience FictionFortySavagesThrillersHookedPulpAvengers Author:James Rollins
“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.” WritingBookStoriesAgeWantedFictionFantasyScience FictionLove StoryGenreThemeComing Of AgeOutsidersThrillers Author:Porochista Khakpour
“I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.” YearsCertainFictionHavensScience FictionThrillersDevotee Author:Frederick Busch