Friendship Quote by Col. Walter E. Kurtz

“The most incomprehensible aspect of horror is that there is nothing to understand. Horror is incredibly shallow and common. One only needs two things…

— Albert Sánchez Piñol

“Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it!”

— Deyth Banger

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

— Leland Hall

“Horror is the only genre where you don't have to explain everything. Things happen just because and that alone makes it scary.”

— R.A. Horn

“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

“It is probably the hardest thing to understand: how even horror can become commonplace. . . You could stop expecting the most awful thing…

— Jodi Picoult

“Any writer of horror needs to at least have a good, solid love of the genre. Also, good horror writers need to have a…

— Alistair Cross

“I think horror, when done well, is one of the most direct and honest ways to get to the core of the human experience…

— Alistair Cross

“The horror is other people. The things they think up to do to you.”

— Charles Frazier

“Clearly, you don't know much about horror, he said. Horror is premised on the experience of what we do not and cannot understand, whereas…

— Paul La Farge

“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 not unimaginable, it has neither the face of a monster nor the bat-wings of a demon. It is calm and tranquil, and…

— J.M.G. Le Clézio