622 quotes found
“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
“Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.”
“The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite.”
“But I know just what it feels like to have a voice in the back of my head, like a face that I hold inside, face that awakes when I close my eyes, face that watches everytime I lie, face that laughs...”
“If I am horror writer, I should listen to metal???- Why not to dubstep??? Or Deathstep???”
“Sherman Reilly Duffy of the pre-World War I CHICAGO DAILY JOURNAL once told a cub reporter, 'Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands besi...”
“A lizard brain fired the gun that wounded you, but it was the combination of three brains that orchestrated the elaborate circumstances in which the trigger was pulled. Way back when, the Landlord ...”
“Fred said, Man, I think hes gonna make a fuckin suit of human skin, using the best parts from each of us.Holy crap, said John. Hell be gorgeous.”
“A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.”
“As for my being a horror writer, I actually think horror is a very conservative genre. The horror comes when you do something wrong--when you challenge religion or society or nature--and then you m...”
“It is dark. You cannot see. Only the hint of stars out the broken window. And a voice as old as the Snake from the Garden whispers, 'I will hold your hand.”
“Through the ages, countless spiritual disciplines have urged us to look within ourselves and seek the truth. Part of that truth resides in a small, dark room -- one we are afraid to enter ”
“The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led intorealms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.”
“Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible,...”
“When you just have a torch and horror around you... then turn off the torch.”
“The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude o...”
“The experimental writer, then, is simply following the storys commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story is the story. See? Sometimes this is very hard to acc...”
“Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a twist ending, going all the way back to H.H. Munro. This ...”
“Where do I go from here? She thought to herself.Truth was, it didnt matter.She had a new beginning.”
