All William Peter Blatty Quotes
- I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police… Consider
- I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's… Academy
- When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth. Delusion
- But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't… Beans
- Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die?… Any
- From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless,… Battered
- For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love. All
- Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the… All
- Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance. Call
- The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes Blind
- I lived in Georgetown in the late 70s about four houses down from the steps. Down
- I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's. Early
- Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current Current
- I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same… Bit
- And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its… All
- In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration.… Appear
- I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious. Any
- What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night Beginning
- Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will… Crucible
- We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all. All
- We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November,… Blossoms
- Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this… Bestial
- As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else. Devil
- God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials. Advertising
- You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for… All