“If you are a monster, stand up. If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend, If you’ve built a steam-powered wishing… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But… — Grant Morrison 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
“I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the traumas of childhood… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If you look at what Ben Affleck has gone on to do, as an actor and as a director, it's extraordinary. But… — Joseph McGinty Nichol Copy Share Image
I couldn't believe I'd come this far, lost Tyson, suffered through so much, only to fail - stopped by a big stupid… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it… — Carl Yastrzemski Copy Share Image
“Beer gurgled through the beard. 'You see,' the young man began, 'the desert's so big you can't be alone in it. Ever… — Anthony Boucher Copy Share Image
I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Curled up at the base of the scales, fast asleep, was the oddest monster I'd seen yet. It had the head of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Ive never been a big believer in ghosts or the spirit world, and for me, that was part of the point of… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
But the humans weren't what made my steps falter as I walked through grass that had turned bright green with summer's touch.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and… — Michael Madsen Copy Share Image
So many of the models of courage we've had, ones that are still taught to boys and girls, are about going out… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“Absolution is the washing away of sin. The promise of rebirth. And the chance to escape the transgressions of those who came… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Jack sprung to his feet out of reach. "I'd prefer to finish this intact. " "My apologies,” Cabal said, grinning viciously. "l… — Alaina Stanford Copy Share Image
“Sky and the stars and the sun, and the moon and the mountain and the rivers will smile, if you smile. Beasts… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“I pictured love as a big hairy giant with a dead fish in his mouth. Grizzly bear claws and his heart half… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The most important part of a RPG is the player feeling like they are taking the role of a character in a… — Yuji Horii Copy Share Image
I thought the Invalids were beasts; I thought they would rip me apart. But these people saved me, and gave me the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams… — Ron Franscell Copy Share Image
When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
When you watch Monsters you understand that the effects he did on his laptop were in the hundreds of thousands of dollars,… — Thomas Tull Copy Share Image
I could have just said I'm good at my job, but I didn't. Didn't want the police thinking I was holding out… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“It occurred to Raule that all children were monsters in the world and were instinctively aware of it. They were reminded of… — K.J. Bishop Copy Share Image
