Chelsea Cain Quotes

Part of the brilliance of Stieg Larsson's books is that they are so complex, so many different facets coming together.

My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.

Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.

I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, doesn't have ulcers or booze problems or an anxiety complex. He doesn't listen to operas, nor does he have an oddball hobby such as making model airplanes.

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

I have always been a big fan of the BBC program 'Luther' with Idris Elba.

I've read a thousand private-eye novels.

The stories I read or get attracted to have a kind of thrill element, or a crime.

I love crime series.

Even in a manuscript form, 'The Girl on the Train' sort of leapt off the pages as a contemporary suspense drama-slash-thriller. It has all the mechanics of a thriller, but at the heart of it was a great character study.

I was reading Agatha Christie as a little boy.

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.

I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.

I recently got into 'Lie to Me' with Tim Roth and 'The Mentalist.'

Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot.

I'm a big Stephen King fan.

I would love to do something in the thriller category. Not so much horror, but I would love to do a full-on psychological thriller. That would be really interesting. A period piece would also be fantastic.

I love thrillers, and I always have.

People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.

When I started writing the third book, 'The Kill,' the intention was just to write a thriller, a crime novel for myself, really, in which there would be no body, no solution - where you would look at an event from different people's perspectives.

I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.