Behavior Quote by Christian Baloga

“If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us... but they're still fucking psychopaths.”

— Jonathan Kellerman

“When asked why I write psychological horror, I always reply that this form is the most intimate way to reach a reader. Think about…

— Wayne Allen Sallee

“I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people.”

— Alistair Cross

“Automatically, like all healthy, normal beings, I deny the existence of horror...”

— Leland Hall

“Sanity, however, was so integral to his character that neither hysteria nor horror could long have their way with him.”

— Thomas M. Disch

“Madness, he thought. The ultimate horror for our para­noid culture: vicious unseen mechanical entities that flit at the edges of our vision, that can…

— Philip K. Dick

“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

“No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD.”

— John R. Lindensmith

“Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.”

— Sanhita Baruah

“Why must I always be cast as the psychopath?”

— Ashlee Nicole Bye

“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

“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