Why do I choose horror? I think it feels the most like a release, in a sense. It can be therapeutic. Because… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
“We know—more from the faces immortalized on a handful of photographs than from the words of survivors—that the women and men who… — Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Copy Share Image
The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals,… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
[Robert] Aikman would write horror stories that weren't gore, they weren't slashers, and they weren't monster stories either. He called them ghost… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection… — John S. Mosby Copy Share Image
“That done, I sank into an uneasy sleep wherein I dreamed of an assembly line of pale, bloodless girls walking down an… — Jeff Rice Copy Share Image
Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“I found a brief piece of by Antonio Vivaldi around this time which became my ‘Pinhead Mood Music’. Called Al Santo Sepolcro… — Doug Bradley Copy Share Image
However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
The fear of loss is an engine of horrors, but also a source of the greatest forms of heroism. There's not a… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Even as a child, I just leaned towards the scary. I remember seeing Halloween, for the first time. I snuck into the… — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
“Tell me, Eric,” he said, licking a droplet from the corner of his mouth. “Have you ever tasted blood?” My mouth was… — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
“Many of the best fantastic stories begin in a leisurely way, set in commonplace surroundings, with exact, meticulous descriptions of an ordinary… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
With The Exorcist we said what we wanted to say. Neither one of us view it as a horror film. We view… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
I was starting to recognize a corner I was driving myself into: that all writing could do was refer to things that… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I went to London a lot as a young designer because London was a major inspiration, not only for the clothes but… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry,… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I've always said that with a lot of the horror franchises that I've started, it's like directing a pilot. I come in,… — James Wan Copy Share Image
“Most modern men want sex and can’t have it. They want success and never get it. They want money and never earn… — Barbie Wilde Copy Share Image
“I stumble across the sea of tarmac, finding pavement, concealment and a brick wall. Palms brace against the scrubby surface. My stomach… — Rebecca Clare Smith Copy Share Image
“Despite wanting me to end her life, after a short while, Mrs Sloan fought back with surprising strength for such a small… — Eli Wilde Copy Share Image
“His body walks out onto the darkened stage , and a roar goes up from the crowd. He stands in front of… — Joseph Garraty Copy Share Image
There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just music . It's a… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting reinvented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid.… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
“Bill suited the action to the word, getting up and leaning over the handlebars and pumping the pedals at a lunatic rate.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential… — William Happer Copy Share Image
I don't think there is anything wrong with watching violence but I just think you have to present it in the appropriate… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
“The tales of pure terror, of course, are completely naturalistic in their content, and must stand or fall by their merit alone.… — Herbert A. Wise Copy Share Image
“My parents warned me about horror movies Blood and guts and Stephen King. They told me to stop reading such disturbing stories… — Holly Riordan Copy Share Image
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