The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We ignore thriller writers at our peril. Their genre is the political condition. They massage our dreams and magnify our nightmare...s. If it is true that we always need enemies, then we will always need writers of fiction to encode our fears and fantasies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers ...rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior ... most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »