Always Quote by Colson Whitehead

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

— Colson Whitehead

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

— Sarah Pinborough

I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have…

— Bentley Little

So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.

— George Stephen

I wanted to reinvent horror comics. I felt like it was my mission to open people's eyes to the fact that horror comics could…

— Stephen R. Bissette

I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.

— Christopher Moore

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

— Karen Kingsbury

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've…

— Edgar Wright

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

— Nick Antosca

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

When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

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