Ridley Pearson Quotes

John Grisham is one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

At the moment, I'm enjoying John Grisham quite a bit.

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that.

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.

I happen to think Martin Cruz Smith is very good.

I'm not a massive reader, to be honest. I try and fill my time with other things. But I remember getting halfway through a book once. It was 'The Client' by John Grisham, which was quite interesting.

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.

Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have given you two events in advance, because I don't have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me. There are many things to think of. There is much story.

I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.

Surprises are good. I'm not of the thinking where you tell the audience everything. Sometimes I don't even want to see the trailers. You see the trailer, you've seen the movie.

Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

The crime genre's always been regarded very well by the literary end of the book world, whereas horror, although it had that spell in the late eighties, by and large, it's sort of ghetto-ized, and considered to be exploited literature.

For me, as a film goer, I like nothing more than to sit in the cinema, have the lights go down and not know what I'm about to see or unfold on-screen. Every time we go to make a film, we do everything we can to try to systematise things so we're able to make the film in private, so that when it's finished it's up to the audience to make of it what they will.

I'd love to branch out but I have absolutely no interest in romance. I just don't. The thought of trying to write a rom-com ... it just completely skeeves me out. No!

I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.

Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs. “Sometime,” I told him. “When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.

I like surprises. I like mystery. I’m not the kind of person who goes to the writer’s room and goes, I need to know the whole story so I can prepare. No, don’t tell me anything!

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

What's going on?" I sat down on the bed and finished the last of the scone. "Bad things," she said mischievously. "You'll approve.

Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.

Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.