--- title: "7 Writer Horror Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 7 Writer Horror quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Writer Horror sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a3/reece-shearsmith-58702_audience_audiences-are-very-sophisticated-and-the_62215.jpg" --- > [Audiences are very sophisticated and they know the nuts and bolts of the genre - certainly with horror more than others I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reece-shearsmith/audiences-are-very-sophisticated-and-they-know-the-nuts-and-bolts-of/) [Reece Shearsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reece-shearsmith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a3/reece-shearsmith-58702_audience_audiences-are-very-sophisticated-and-the_62215.jpg) > [Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colson-whitehead/growing-up-devouring-horror-comics-and-novels-and-being-inspired-to/) [Colson Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colson-whitehead/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04f/colson-whitehead-1042_always_growing-up-devouring-horror-comics-and-n_442283.png) > [I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colson-whitehead/i-was-inspired-to-become-a-writer-by-horror-movies-and-science-fiction/) [Colson Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colson-whitehead/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6f/colson-whitehead-1042_become_i-was-inspired-to-become-a-writer-by-hor_443668.png) > [Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-friedkin/edgar-allan-poe-is-considered-the-great-writer-of-horror-stories/) [William Friedkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-friedkin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/115/william-friedkin-10094_allan-poe_edgar-allan-poe-is-considered-the-great_1854110.jpg) > [ I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question \[why I'm write these stories\]. It's not a question that you would… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/i-have-always-felt-a-little-bit-uncomfortable-with-question-why-i-m/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d0/stephen-king-13_asks_i-have-always-felt-a-little-bit-uncomfor_2204674.jpg) > [Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-chabon/horror-grows-impatient-rhetorically-with-the-stoic-fatalism-of/) [Michael Chabon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-chabon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/090/michael-chabon-627_attainment_horror-grows-impatient-rhetorically-with_2545097.png) > [“Any writer of horror needs to at least have a good, solid love of the genre. Also, good horror writers need to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cross/any-writer-of-horror-needs-to-at-least-have-a-good-solid-love-of-the/) [Alistair Cross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cross/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/452/alistair-cross-22389_alistair-cross_any-writer-of-horror-needs-to-at-least-h_2884038.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writer-horror/#itemlist", "name": "Writer Horror Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Audiences are very sophisticated and they know the nuts and bolts of the genre - certainly with horror more than others I think. But they attract lots of people, they're much derided as a genre but people go and see them and they're not all dumb. There's some very clever horror films. Stephen King gets a lot of flack for not being a proper writer because he's a horror writer, but I think he writes some brilliant books. 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