Going Quote by Christopher Moore

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

— Colson Whitehead

I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a…

— Christopher Rice

I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my…

— James Herbert

I love horror movies. I consider myself a horror author, sometimes.

— Nick Antosca

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always…

— Colson Whitehead

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

— Sarah Pinborough

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.

— George Stephen

I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though…

— Dan Chaon

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they…

— Clive Barker

Whenever I would see horror movies I would be traumatized and I'd have to watch them behind my hands or behind the couch sometimes.…

— Mike Flanagan

I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the super popular…

— Karen Walton