If you’ve been searching for the greatest psychological crime and thriller quotes ever, you’ve come to the right place. The Imagahub review team has curated the best quotes to perfectly articulate the field of crime and thriller writing.
‘The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.’ Mickey Spillane
'Readers have to feel you know what you're talking about.' Margaret Murphy
‘A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.’ Edgar Allan Poe
'Chapters are shorter than they used to be, and I have to be creative about ways to keep the pace moving: varying my sentence length, making sure each chapter ends on a note of suspense, keeping excess narration to a minimum.’ Joseph Finder
My idead? ‘Headlines. The human heart. My deepest fears. The inner voice that says: if it scares you, it’ll scare readers too.’ Meg Gardiner
‘I’d have to say that most of my ideas originate with everyday anxieties. What if I forgot to lock the door? What if a horrific crime happened next door? What if my daughter didn’t show up at work? What if I woke up one day and the house was empty?’ Linwood Barclay
‘Ideas are not the hard part of writing. I have ideas all the time. The challenge is understanding which ideas are the most interesting and powerful and dramatic, and then finding the best way to bring them to life. It’s all in the execution, because the idea is where the work begins, not where it ends.’ Jeff Abbott
‘If you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.’ Elizabeth George
‘The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.’ Raymond Chandler
'You’re looking for your character who’s got the absolute most at stake, and that’s the person who you want your story to be about.' Daniel Palmer
'Books aren't written, they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it...' Michael Crichton
‘You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.’ Jodi Picoult
‘When you’re editing write the following words onto a Post-it note in big red letters and stick it on your monitor: ‘Who Cares?’. If something has no bearing on the story, leave it out.’ Stuart MacBride
'If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.' Margaret Atwood
‘The best advice is the simplest. Write what you love. And do it everyday. There’s only one way to learn how to write and that’s to write.’ Steve Berry
‘Don’t go into great detail describing places and things… You don’t want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.’ Elmore Leonard
‘A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.’ G K Chesterton
‘Write about what you never want to know.' Michael Connelly
‘I always refer to style as sound. The sound of the writing.’ Elmore Leonard
‘Before you can be a writer you have to experience some things, see some of the world, go through things – love, heartbreak, and so on -, because you need to have something to say.’ John Grisham
‘Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you’re on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine. Margaret Atwood
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