Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
Ted DekkerI would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that before'.
Ted DekkerKeep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!
Ted DekkerโฆItโs not that you donโt have the capacity to accept the truth. You donโt want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodnessโโ sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!
Ted Dekker