Send shivers up and down your spine with these chilling quotes

If you love a good thrill you will love these scary quotes curated by the Imagahub review team guaranteed to send shivers up your spine.

David Wong, 'John Dies at the End'

Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.

Gillian Flynn, 'Dark Places'

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.

Clive Barker, 'Books of Blood'

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

L.J. Smith

People die …

Beauty fades …

Love changes …

And you will always be alone.

William Shakespeare, 'The Tempest'

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Hrithik Roshan

I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.

Max Brooks, 'World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War'

The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts.

Robert Bloch

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Elizabeth Kostova, 'The Historian'

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

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Famously Creepy Sayings from Books

Here are some of the scariest quotes of all time, drawn from books over the years. Enjoy this creepy list curated by the Imagahub review team.

“Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.”

Inferno (Dante Alighieri)

“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble.”

Macbeth (William Shakespeare)

“O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.”

Abarat (Clive Barker)

“Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don’t want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.”

The Ritual (Adam Nevill)

“Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore. ‘Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,’ I said, ‘art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore – Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!’ Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.'”

The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe)

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

Robert Bloch

“I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest – expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there’s nothing there, not even a beat.”

American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”

Dracula (Bram Stoker)

“Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.”

I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)

“Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know.”

Songs of Sapphique (Catherine Fisher)

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

The Tempest (William Shakespeare)

“We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open.”

The Family Reunion (T.S. Eliot)

“There are horrors beyond life’s edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man’s evil prying calls them just within our range.”

The Thing on the Doorstep (H.P. Lovecraft)

“Last night I saw upon the stair, A little man who wasn’t there, He wasn’t there again today Oh, how I wish he’d go away…”

Antigonish (William Hughes Mearns)

“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…”

Knock (Fredric Brown)

“Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells ’em off for a coupla stones.”

The Diviners (Libba Bray)

“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”

The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)

“Blood is really warm, it’s like drinking hot chocolate but with more screaming.”

Zombie Haiku (Ryan Mecum)

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Random Quotes on Crime & Thriller Writing

Fans of crime and thriller fiction will love this collection of quotes curated by the ImagaHub review team on their favourite genre.

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

‘Place the body near the beginning of your book—preferably on the first page, perhaps the first sentence.’ Louise Penny

‘I’m interested in starting stories at the moment of some crisis to see how the character deals with it.’ Paul Auster

‘Figure out what exactly is at stake, and how to establish it quickly. That’s your conflict.’ Katia Lief

‘I’m always pretending that I’m sitting across from somebody. I’m telling a story, and I don’t want them to get up until I’m finished.’ James Patterson

‘Life is about working out who the bad guy is.’ Sophie Hannah

'I can't start writing until I have a closing line.' Joseph Heller

‘I often know how the book will end and have imagined a number of major scenes throughout, but not always how I will get there. When I’m about two-thirds done I reoutline the whole book so I know that I’m delivering on all I promised.’ Jeff Abbott

‘The only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel.’ Dean Koontz

‘People don’t read books to get to the middle. They read to get to the end.’ Mickey Spillane

‘I like to come up with a massive scale concept and throw in very ordinary characters because I think if you have a massive scale concept with massive scale characters they tend to cancel each other out. People have more fun if they can imagine how either themselves or the type of people they know would react in a bizarre situation. It’s a bit boring if you know how some highly trained soldier is going to react to a situation. It’s not very interesting compared to how someone who is an electrician or a schoolteacher might react to a situation.’ Christopher Brookmyre

‘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

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Inspiring lines from crime thriller writers

Here are some of the most inspiring words from the most well-known crime thriller writers, curated by the Imagahub review team.

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

Keep a plate spinning until the final paragraph. Then let it fall. ~Unknown

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

Read aloud. And not just your own work. Read good writing aloud.

Listen to the sound the words make. ~Unknown

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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Great thriller quotes from James Patterson

Learn about James’s writing philosophy with quotes straight from him, selected by the Imagahub review team.

James Patterson on Research:

“The more you know about, the more likely you are to combine things to make an idea that’s striking.”

“Research really helps your confidence.”

James Patterson on Success:

“Don’t set out to write a good thriller. Set out to write a #1 thriller.”

“If you’re going to write a bestseller … it’s got to work for a lot of people.”

James Patterson on Writer’s Block:

“Don’t think about the sentences, think about the story. Write the story down.”

“Do not torture yourself. That’s how people get blocked.”

“Do not sit there like, ‘Oh I don’t feel like it today. I don’t feel like it tomorrow.’ Feel like it! Do it! Force yourself.”

James Patterson on Crafting Characters:

“You want your readers to have strong feelings about your characters.”

“With respect to characters, you want things that really dig deep and say a lot very very quickly, to get us interested in the person.”

“I need to feel as involved as I want the reader to feel.”

James Patterson on Plot and Suspense:

“Everything you write should be moving your story forward.”

“At the end, something has you propel you into the next chapter.”

“In my opinion, one of the biggest secrets of suspense is setting up questions that the readers must have answered.”

James Patterson on Titles and Covers:

“Nobody buys a book that they don’t pick up.”

“You gotta put something out there that gets their attention and gets them curious.”

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Inspiring Quotes From Inspiring Crime Thriller Writers

Find inspiration in these quotes from crime thriller writers curated by the Imagahub review team.

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

Place the body near the beginning of your book—preferably on the first page, perhaps the first sentence. ~Louise Penny

I’m interested in starting stories at the moment of some crisis to see how the character deals with it. ~Paul Auster

Figure out what exactly is at stake, and how to establish it quickly. That’s your conflict. ~Katia Lief

I’m always pretending that I’m sitting across from somebody. I’m telling a story, and I don’t want them to get up until I’m finished. ~James Patterson

Life is about working out who the bad guy is. ~Sophie Hannah

An initial crisis may produce a question, one that takes the form of a challenge to the reader: Can they solve the puzzle before the answer is revealed? In its simplest form the crisis is a murder and the question is whodunit? ~Unknown

I can’t start writing until I have a closing line. ~Joseph Heller

Often know how the book will end and have imagined a number of major scenes throughout, but not always how I will get there. When I’m about two-thirds done I re-outline the whole book so I know that I’m delivering on all I promised. ~Jeff Abbott

Crime stories are rarely about crime. They’re a study of its aftermath. ~Unknown

The only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel. ~Dean Koontz

People don’t read books to get to the middle. They read to get to the end.~Mickey Spillane

I do extensive outlines before I write a single word. ~Jeffrey Deaver

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Best New Thriller Audiobooks

Audiobooks can sometimes add another dimension to novels. If you find a narrator who knows how to play the characters, then you can pick up on the nuances of the book. While it is great to reread books in audio form, new thrillers such as those on ImagaHub will be especially enjoyable. Here are the best new thriller audiobooks you can listen to now.

You Love Me by Caroline Kepnes

Recently made into a new Netflix show, this story follows Joe Goldberg who decides to move to a new island after he gets tired of the city. When he arrives he gets a job as a librarian and meets Mary Kay DiMarco. That is where things get interesting.

Backlash by Brad Thor

This book revolves around ancient texts that depict men who are thought to be part angel, part demon. They struck from the shadows and were not the type of people you wanted to cross. This is considered one of the most explosive novels Brad Thor has written so far.

Trust No One

Detective Kerri Devlin is not only dealing with her ex-husband and teenage daughter, but she is also working on a new case where a serial killer is at large. This book contains many twists and turns and will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Deadlock by Catherine Coulter

When a medium tells a woman that her dead grandfather has a deadly old secret. Savich and Sherlock need to investigate. At the same time, three boxes are delivered to Savich and the Hoover Building. This is another best-selling book you can find on ImagaHub.

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