Thrillers Quotes

• I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.

  Celia Johnson

  Wall

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• I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

  Emily Watson

  Character, Thinking, Dragons

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• I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

  Lana Parrilla

  Scary, Horror, Creeps

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Opportunity, Want, Way

  Interview with Scott Collura, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

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• You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

  Eriq La Salle

  Psychological, Heard, Audience

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

  Andrew Gross

  Soccer, Mom, Daughter

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• I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

  James Patterson

  Fun, School, Thinking

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• For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world.

  Dan Brown

  Real, Submarines, World

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• 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

  Real, Technology, Law

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• Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

  Graham Greene

  Literature

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear”

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• Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

  Ken Follett

  Book, Character, Masculine

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• The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Intricacy, Formal

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• I think everyone should read The Girl on The Train, especially if they loved Gone Girl. It's about Rachel, a girl who sees a couple on her commute. Then one day she sees one of the people from the couple kiss another person. The next day they go missing. The story is told by 3 different perspectives, all characters you absolutely can't trust. It's an insane psychological thriller that's seriously addicting and the kind of book you can't put down.

  Kyle

  Girl, Couple, Book

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• About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last.

  Lev Grossman

  Smart, Perfect, Pages

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

  David Morrell

  Our World, Long, Teach

  Source: bookpage.com

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• You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.

  Patrick Wilson

  Spiritual, Backbone

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• As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.

  Rachel Weisz

  Beauty, Running, Fall

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• Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.

  James Patterson

  Book, Thinking, Promise

  "How To Write A Killer Thriller". Interview with AskMan, www.askmen.com.

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• Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Messy, Ambiguous

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• People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

  Scott Turow

  People, Inventor

  "'To hell with Perry Mason'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

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

  Ken Follett

  Fear, Writing, Credit

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• I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Mother, Book, Reading

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• The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

  Eli Roth

  People, Video, Use

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• It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

  Rachel Weisz

  Loss, Political, Stories

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• She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Disappointment, Loneliness, Book

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Oct 27, 2014

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