“Michael Delaney used to be fat. Not puppy-padding fat—bursting-frankfurts-in-a-boiling-pot fat. He remembered gym class and swimming lessons. All of the thin guys… — Aaron Dries Copy Share Image
I also have just my own limits about stuff. I'm not interested in writing graphically about sexual assault for example. I feel… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“That horror which stalks in the stillness of the noonday, when the glare of an artificial sunshine lights up the motionless trees,… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I understood more what Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan, what they were coming from. Kind of the horrors of their childhoods that… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
I really liked the script of 'Alone.' I thought there were a lot unexpected things in the film, which I would want… — Karan Singh Grover Copy Share Image
“No fugging way. That's how horror movies start. We drop you off, walk into some stranger's house, and five minutes later some… — John Green Copy Share Image
“A ten-year-old Amanda wandering around the sights and sounds of a carnival. Trying to take it all in as such an event… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“As he sat up, he heard soft dripping sounds from the bathroom, little plips like water slipping over the edges of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I actually prefer to work in as many different genres as possible as often as possible because I actually think the best… — Christopher Lennertz Copy Share Image
While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Betrayal is too kind a word to describe a situation in which a father says he loves his daughter but claims he… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
“Seated in the middle of the floor with its back to me was the naked figure of a baby of, perhaps, two… — L.A. Lewis Copy Share Image
Audiences have grown to equate being startled with being scared, and will complain that a movie 'isn't scary enough' if it doesn't… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level.… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
We're trying to tell a very full story of 'Nashville' and these characters in Nashville, and I'm really hopeful that we're going… — Connie Britton Copy Share Image
In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The horrors of Vivisection have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded… — Henry Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
“Our house was an old Tudor mansion. My father was very particular in keeping the smallest peculiarities of his home unaltered. Thus… — John Berwick Harwood Copy Share Image
“Would you teach me, Seth?’ Seth smiled and leaned back in his seat. ‘You do realise, of course, that you have no… — Lee Morgan Copy Share Image
“Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
My first horror film was - well, I don't know. 'Bless the Child' is sort of genre, but 'May' was such a… — Angela Bettis Copy Share Image
I think I began getting really influenced by that whole punk scene around the age of 13 or 14-I went through that… — Rozz Williams Copy Share Image
As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
I love horror comedies, and I love horror movies. In particular, I love horror movies from the '80s that have practical monsters… — Ken Marino Copy Share Image
Most of the people buying the Soviet paraphernalia were Americans and West Europeans. All would be sickened by the thought of wearing… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much, and to… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
Anyone can do shock value. Develop enough tension and cue the music right, then have something jump out: It's almost impossible not… — Daniel Myrick Copy Share Image
Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later.… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
