Century Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incredibly interesting and powerful.

— Catherynne M. Valente

Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.

— Catherynne M. Valente

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

— J. K. Rowling

“You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to which those…

— Thomas Hardy

If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting.

— Alex Gibney

Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

— John Steinbeck

“Mind you, I cannot swear that my story is true. It may have been a dream; or worse, a symptom of some severe mental…

— Robert Bloch

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.

— Terence McKenna

Anytime you're telling a story about monsterhood, you're playing around with ideas about otherness and alienation.

— Liv Hewson

“Often, the monsters we create in our imagination are not nearly as frightening as the monstrous acts perpetrated by ordinary human beings in the…

— Libba Bray

Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.

— Colson Whitehead

When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was... an imaginary place where the grotesque…

— Guillermo del Toro