Brad Thor
Brad Thor is a novelist and writer born on August 21, 1969, in Chicago, Illinois, and a citizen of the United States.
Thor's path to a writing career began in Chicago, where he attended Sacred Heart Schools and then Francis W. Parker School. He went on to pursue his undergraduate education at the University of Southern California. Those years of schooling formed the educational foundation from which he developed his work as a novelist.
Thor has worked as both a writer and a novelist. His identity as a fiction writer is the primary fact of his public life, rooted in a Chicago upbringing and shaped by the educational institutions he attended across Illinois and California.
As a novelist, Thor has built his career on the work he has produced since his start as a writer. Born in 1969, he brought to his fiction the experiences of a life that began in one of the country's major cities and continued through a formal education that took him from the Midwest to the West Coast. Those biographical facts — Chicago origins, schooling at Sacred Heart Schools and Francis W. Parker School, and a degree from the University of Southern California — constitute the known record of the formative years that preceded his career as a published American novelist.
Quotes by Brad Thor
I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.
I write about things that are important for us as Americans. I'm concerned about al-Qaeda sneaking across the border with the illegal immigrants that are using the coyotes to get across the border. And that's not a Democrat or Republican issue, that's a national security issue.
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean.
What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is.
I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal.
I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It’s not about the main character being different at the end. I don’t want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal.
Well, my books – I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they’re based in reality.
It had to be tonight and it had to be moonless, because that was the only way a dangerous, borderline-psychotic insertion like this could ever possibly work.