At their best, thrillers not only entertain. Ideally they also reflect the society in which they are set, analyzing our fears and how we perceive the….

You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, th….

" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world..

To all librarians everywhere, God bless you..

A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed to cerebral calculat….

Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the….

Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have written..

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer..

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth..

As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end….

I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and ….

As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant..

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them..

People who know various movie versions don't really know the story..

His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentuck….

One generation's idea of fast pace might be different from a later generation's..