Horror Fiction Quotes
- Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a… — David J
- If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you. — Jennifer Weiner
- I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death. — Clive Barker
- [Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. — Clive Barker
- Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access… — Thomas Ligotti
- At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think… — Clive Barker
- What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than external… — Andrew Pyper
- I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as… — Poppy Z. Brite
- And the great appeal of horror fiction through the ages is that it serves as a rehearsal for our own deaths. — Steven King
- I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard… — George Stephen