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.

- David Morrell

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…

- David Morrell

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

- David Morrell

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…

- David Morrell

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

- David Morrell

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…

- David Morrell

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…

- David Morrell

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

- David Morrell

To all librarians everywhere, God bless you.

- David Morrell