Gayle Lynds Quotes

Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.

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

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

I grew up on all of the great spy movies and TV series of the Sixties - not just Bond, but Derek Flint and the Avengers and Modesty Blaise and the Man from UNCLE and on and on. Every time I sit down to work on Cinderella, I'm writing a love letter to all of those characters.

I'm a huge fan of the 'James Bond' genre.

I invented the historical spy novel.

I've always loved the Bond films.

Ian Fleming and Norman Felton were friends. 'U.N.C.L.E.' was basically a tongue-in-cheek 'Bond.' It wasn't quite as serious and dramatic as 'Bond,' nor did we have the budget for that.

I love the thriller genre generally. I like murder mysteries and those kinds of adventure stories.

I love adult thrillers and murder mysteries and everything like that.

Who would ever have thought that Robert Ludlum would have become the father of modern action cinema?

I love 'Bond' movies, I love spy movies.

I've always loved the Bond pictures. I have watched every single one. Movies don't get bigger or better than Bond, so I knew this was my opportunity to do a massive action picture with outrageous stunts.

Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

I actually thought, like, I was sure 'Get Smart' and, like, 'James Bond' movies, I was sure that that's what real life was like.

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.

Since I was a kid I've wanted to be in a Bond movie.

I love thrillers, and I always have.

I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.

I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.