Horror Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“That motley drama—oh, be sure It shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased for evermore By a crowd that seize it not, Through…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my…

— Edgar Allan Poe

In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

— George Meredith

It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character…

— Ti West

O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days…

— George Whitefield

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the…

— Stephen J. Cannell

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

— Anthony Horowitz

J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit…

— Helena Bonham Carter

All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through…

— Margaret Atwood

Steve [King] has been incredibly supportive. He's also really good about getting back to me when I have questions about plot or characterization.

— Robin Furth

You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing…

— Evangeline Lilly

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,…

— Anne Enright