Poe Quotes
55 quotes by 47 authors
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When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
— Dario Argento
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I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
— Margaret Atwood
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman,…
— Quentin Crisp
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The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas…
— S. T. Joshi
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The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he…
— John Astin
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Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.
— John Astin
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She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the Unity mission. I…
— Charles Portis
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Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.
— Arthur Twining Hadley
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I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the…
— Linus Pauling
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By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic…
— Hugo Gernsback
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After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles,…
— Jules de Goncourt
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...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing…
— Eden Robinson
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I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
— Jack Prelutsky
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I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if…
— John Astin
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I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all, there was no telling when or if…
— Peter David
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Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my…
— Stephen King
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One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.
— John Astin
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It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get…
— John Astin
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I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.
— Andy Richter
Who Wrote These Poe Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 55 Poe Quotes, led by these top contributors: