Lisa Jewell Quotes

My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers.

The older I get, the more I love psychological thrillers.

I think I'll stick with psychological thrillers.

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.

I love a psychological thriller, particularly ones that are written by women. I've just finished 'Gone Girl' by Gillian Flynn, which was so creepy and never failed to surprise me, particularly the end.

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

What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a 'psychological thriller.' To me, psychological thriller basically means 'a horror movie without the blood.'

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

'Rear Window' isn't really a horror film, but it is a psychological drama, which I love. It is very tense.

The term 'psychological thriller' is an elastic one these days, tagged liberally on to any story of suspense that explores motivations while keeping blood and chainsaws to a minimum.

I love writing thrillers.

With thrillers, I tend to concentrate on the research and pace more than the characters.

When I first started writing 'Still Missing,' I didn't actually realize I was writing a thriller. I thought it was more women's fiction, but during the many years of rewrites, I kept taking out the boring parts, and then my agent informed me that I had written a thriller.

The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all.

Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show.

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

Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.

I was so obsessed by Lisbeth Salander and all the characters, but of course if you're going to write a crime novel worthy of Stieg Larsson, you need a plot, don't you?

'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.

The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

I read a lot of thrillers because they're easy reading and I'm not a great flier. They take my head out of it. I like the fast pace and that you can't put them down.

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.