Gripping Plot Quotes

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.

Six Seconds is a great read. Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe, author Mofina has penned a big, solid international thriller that grabs your gut -- and your heart -- in the opening scenes and never lets go.

Six Seconds should be Rick Mofina's breakout thriller. It moves like a tornado.

Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.

Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.

Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep.

THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.

My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.

I think good suspense and horror is really about creating situations that are relatable, and throwing a wrench in it and watching how people respond to it.

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.

I found 'Celebrity Gangster' intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some good writing, Alive and exciting, To contemplate all by myself. I need a good novel, I need a good read. I probably need Two or three. I need a good tale Of love and betrayal Or perhaps an adventure at sea. I need a good saga. I need a good yarn. A momentous and mightily Or slight one. But with thousands and thousands And thousands of books, I need someone to tell me The right one. -John Lithgow

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.

Mass market paperback thrillers are a dime a dozen. The trick is to find something that actually sticks to the ribs.

I'm not a horror fans as much as I'm a fan of thrillers.

'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

My books flow. People say they pick them up and they can't put them down. It's because when I'm writing them I pick my pen up and I cannot put my pen down.

I'm delighted to be joining the cast of 'The Fall' for what is going to be an exciting and gripping second series.

Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away.

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

No one reads to hear someone complain about the weather or how poorly their children are behaving. You have to give the readers a reason to turn the page. As a writer you have to invite someone to turn the page. And that is a skill you have to refine. That is why you have to read. You have to read to learn what it is that makes people turn the page.

I love horror movies, so it's a real treat to be able to work on a television show of that genre, and have it actually be really, really good.

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.