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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
When you're playing the devil, you're playing the ultimate evil. There are no boundaries. In doing a film in the horror genre… — Ashley Bell Copy Share Image
I think there's over-telling sometimes, in fiction. For instance, I'm a big fan of horror movies, but I could always lose the… — Evie Wyld 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
I realized that for many people attending a reading is like watching television at the end of a long day. They don't… — Chinelo Okparanta Copy Share Image
“In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they will… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
“Potkraj Drugoga svjetskog rata izvukli su me iz škole i, kao šesnaestogodišnjaka, gurnuli u vojsku. Nakon kratke vojničke izobrazbe u würzburškim kasarnama… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
“She suddenly felt herself gasping for air, as if she’d momentarily forgotten how to breathe. She rocked back in her chair and… — Joe DeRouen Copy Share Image
“Time snapped and Hagerty found himself speeding toward the woman in the straitjacket. Grabbing her by the shoulders, he pulled her off… — Nancy A. Collins Copy Share Image
A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Doista, neka samo procuri prva rakija, netko će se već, obično kod neke ruševine obrasle kupinom, na pustom križanju, u ponoć, pod… — Ante Tomić Građanin pokorni Copy Share Image
I remember when I went to a gallery in Paris at one point, they had drawings of earthworks set in different places.… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
“For my number-one favorite kill, I almost went with Johnny Depp being eaten alive and then regurgitated by his own bed in… — Robert Englund 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 stories. The main thing about them was the vibe. It was really disquieting. He wanted to sketch the scene so that you could see it and know the…” quote by John Darnielle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/772/john-darnielle-2176_answers_robert-aikman-would-write-horror-stories_792953.jpg)
