My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult… — James Frey Copy Share Image
What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
There are very few horror shows, where you have a long running arc. Most horror shows play as a sort of an… — Glen Mazzara Copy Share Image
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I stared down at my hands and saw the blood coat them, how warm and real something felt when it wasn’t just… — Charlotte Munro Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have little movies that I've made that I wish would be seen by a larger audience. I have a horror… — Robert Picardo Copy Share Image
“I suppose the best way to tell the story is simply to narrate it, without an effort to carry belief. The thing… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“In any event, whether a supernatural tale remains altogether fantastic or eventually modulates to the uncanny or the marvelous, the reader is… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
“It’s horrible," she said. He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There was one woman who had a giant sign and on it, it just said, 'America Is Better Than Abortion.' I think… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We've become so postmodern as an audience and we're so familiar with the style of horror movies that they all kind of… — Ti West Copy Share Image
There's nothing scarier than silence. A lot of horror movies lean on hits and score to try and create tension, which actually… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Everyone rushes wherever his instincts impel him, the populace swarms like insects over a corpse, poets pass by without having the time… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Steven Spielberg's name was all over 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' was out the same year, which every single parent took their child to.… — Pedro Pascal Copy Share Image
The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“William sees it all happen again. The pain is not in the event. The subjection to it and his powerless state each… — M.R. Gott Copy Share Image
When 'The Walking Dead' has been its best, all that stuff is happening at once: the emotion, action, horror, scares. I'm very… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
“My power grew angry that it was confined to my petite frame and pulled against my taut skin. Growing bolder, it tore… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“The marine underworld stretched below the ship and embodied many secrets. The disappearance of Olga had become one of the mysteries that… — Tiffany Apan Copy Share Image
Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
If I had stayed purely a horror writer or thriller writer, I might have more of a presence in those particular genres,… — Chet Williamson Copy Share Image
The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens as all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I would like to turn in my skin and change it for a new epidermis. It feels as if I will never… — Holly A. Smith Copy Share Image
Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
As Albert Camus wrote, the doctor’s role is as a witness – to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak… — James Orbinski Copy Share Image
“It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
My norm for watching scary movies, what I love about it, is when they work and they scare me, which is not… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
A lot of the main audience thinks video game-based movies are always horror movies but it's totally not true. In video games… — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You really have to do your job as a writer and push people to be as creative as possible. What's nice about… — Glen Mazzara Copy Share Image
“A figure held his daughter in the rocker. In the dim light he couldn’t make out the features, but the sight of… — Amanda M. Lyons Copy Share Image
“If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
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