Books Quote by Alan Ball Download Open image “When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.” — Alan Ball ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Home Lasts Vampire Want
I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I have always been into the darker side of things and love the mystery and sexiness of vampires. — Madison McKinley Copy Share Image
Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority while taking the reader through a brief tour of vampire lore and mythology. This is a book I'd recommend to anybody with an interest in the author or vampires. The parts which deal with vampires are… — Joe McNally Copy Share
You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Well did you call the hypothetical hardware store and buy a theoretical chainsaw?-- Pam to Jessica, True Blood” — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“Pam: I don't know what it is about me that makes people think I want to hear their problems. Maybe I smile too much.… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time.… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
