Books Quote by Edgar Cantero

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

— Anonymous

Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for…

— Bentley Little

“Critics all have this idea that authors inhabit another dimensional realm, right up to their first smack in the mouth - which feels to…

— Don Paterson

There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways.

— Paul G. Tremblay

“Our fiction is not merely in flight from the physical data of the actual world…it is, bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction, nonrealistic and…

— Leslie Fielder

For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for…

— Faith Sullivan

“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

“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

“A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your…

— David Mitchell

“Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.”

— Christian Baloga

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green