Chevy Stevens Quotes

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.

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 writing thrillers.

I've been in an Agatha Christie called 'The Sittaford Mystery,' which I enjoyed, but 'The Pale Horse' has a real sense of intrigue and the jigsaw pieces fitting together.

One of the things that I love about crime novels is that you can turn the volume all the way up. If I can make somebody blow their subway stop, I win.

A lot of the best suspense operates on a careful withholding of information as opposed to the doling out of information.

It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

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.

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.

Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines.

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.

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

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?

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.

That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.

The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took some time for me to realise how the genre worked. There were about 20 characters on the first page, and I wasn't used to this. I started to enjoy it when I saw that was how crime books worked.

As a viewer, I really want to watch author-backed stories, and there is something amazing about thrillers, the way it captivates your imagination.

I grew up reading thrillers. Honestly, I was always drawn to the very detailed ones like Patricia Cornwell. I love details.

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.