Quotes by Robert Bloch

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Fiction writer · American · 1917–1994

American fiction writer (1917–1994)

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“Matheson gets closer to his characters than anyone else in the field of fantasy today. ... You don’t read a Matheson story — you experience it.”
— Robert Bloch

“I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister.”
— Robert Bloch

“The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.”
— Robert Bloch

“Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.”
— Robert Bloch

“At first, when the shower curtains parted, the steam obscured the face. Then she did see it there—just a face, peering through the curtains, hanging in midair like a mask. A head-scarf concealed th...”
— Robert Bloch

“That’s the way girls were—they always laughed. Because they were bitches.”
— Robert Bloch

“Funny...how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.”
— Robert Bloch

“Magic—that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.”
— Robert Bloch

“We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.”
— Robert Bloch

“The bad man had really committed the murders and then he tried to blame it on her. Mother killed them. That's what he said, but it was a lie. How could she kill them when she was only watching, whe...”
— Robert Bloch