The Turn of the Screw.

I do love 'The Turn of the Screw' - I just think that one's always so disturbing.

— Gillian Flynn

“It is the phenomenon somethings called "alienation from self." In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might want something;…

— Joan Didion

The most terrifying thing I ever saw in a cinema, thanks to the carefully built-up drama, was in the ancient black-and-white film 'The Innocents,'…

— Peter Hitchens

“I could only get on at all by taking "nature" into my confidence and my account, by treating my monstrous ordeal as a push…

— Henry James

To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great,…

— Joan Didion

You know, you don't need a leader to sort of administer something that's going very well. In fact, in one sense, an overly ambitious…

— Louis V. Gerstner, Jr

Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say:…

— Robert M. Pirsig

You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Suzanne Collins, it was such a big thing for me to make the handshake with her and to say, 'You can trust me. I…

— Nina Jacobson

I'm friggin' awesome! So screw the haters!

— Jackson Pearce

Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.

— Paul MacCready

Whether I'm involved or indirectly involved, I screw things up all the time.

— Michael G. Rubin

“Screw the right thing to do. What do you want to do?”

— Beth Reekles

“Screw nightmares. I was waking up.”

— Kody Keplinger

There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.

— David Krumholtz