Books Quote by Barbara Watkins

“So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all your fears and anxieties and insecurities and taking them…

— Stephen King

“A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows...but to reach into them too.”

— Thomas Scopel

“Horror is best written in the dark.”

— Dennis McDonald

Think about the stories you have inside that scare you. That's what you should be writing. I and others call that writing from the…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

“From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible…

— Pat Conroy

“The hardest part of writing a story is making bad things happen to good people. The hardest part of writing horror is knowing that…

— Allison M. Dickson

“Horror writers shouldn't play nice. Disturb & unnerve your reader. Make them uncomfortable, but not so much they stop reading.”

— Pamela Morris

“A writer must get beyond the thrill of a byline, plunge deeper than the words themselves, and dive head-on into a bottomless pit where…

— Kathleen M. Rodgers

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

“One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say “Wow, what a horror novel”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.”

— Mark W Boyer