Tess Gerritsen Quotes

I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesn't?

That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.

I'm not 100% sure 'Rebecca' qualifies as a thriller, given it's three parts screwed-up love story and two parts ghost-story-without-a-ghost, but the mystery at the heart of the novel is what happened to Maxim's first wife, the eponymous Rebecca, and it's unravelled with the pacing and finesse of the finest psychological thrillers out there.

Sometimes a disappearance can be more haunting than an apparition.

I've done a lot of genre movies.

Most crime novels offer a curious kind of escape, to places that jag the nerves and worry the mind. Their rides of suspense give a good thrill, but it's rarely a comfortable one.

My favorite movie is 'House of Wax.'

'The Da Vinci Code' and films of that nature are the ones that I really enjoy because you are learning and working out riddles as you go along.

My focus will always be crime, but it might not always be fiction, nor always for adults, nor books entirely in prose. That's a lot of ground to cover, so I might as well begin.

There are two ways to approach the writing of a mystery novel: adhere to the rules, or break them with glee.

I take very seriously that challenge of trying to do genre films - but elevated genre films.

It's intriguing to me, when I see a horror script, or something like that, that's actually original. I think that's why I love 'Stranger Things,' because it's not just horror, it's everything, and when they use horror it's right.

I grew up on courtroom dramas, and I really love the feel of a dramatic thriller.

When you watch a Hitchcock movie, you feel like learning back because there's a master in control.

As a filmmaker, I tilt towards stories which are crime-led.

I am a fan of crime investigative series.

My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.

As an inveterate lover of mystery, cracking the code of a writer's true identity has the same effect, for me, as tasting forbidden fruit.

We haven't found anything that we can't explain at all. I hope that will happen.

I love crime, I love sci-fi and many other things.

I do love a dark movie.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.

The crime genre's always been regarded very well by the literary end of the book world, whereas horror, although it had that spell in the late eighties, by and large, it's sort of ghetto-ized, and considered to be exploited literature.

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration.