Creativity Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“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

“It's safe to say that 'Horror,' as a fictional genre, has claim to it's own canon. There is a definite history that can be…

— William Cook

“There are those who don't understand the nobility of horror fiction. 'Isn't there enough horror in the world?' they ask. For all other forms…

— Anonymous

“horror MUST stimulate the reader’s mental pressure points more effectively and more consistently than other genres.”

— Joe Mynhardt

“I think horror can and should be classy. I enjoy seeing it raised up not lowered down to the lowest common denominator. There's prejudice…

— Carole Gill

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

“Good horror is written by people who understand that fear is one of the cardinal passageways into the core of humanity. Good horror is…

— Alistair Cross

“Good horror fiction deals with taboos. It must always go to the limits of what is acceptable.”

— Clive Barker

It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most…

— Ti West

“Horror is not a genre, it is an emotion. It is a progressive form of fiction, one that evolves to meet the fears and…

— Douglas E. Winter

“At this point, a few words on this term 'horror' are perhaps called for. Some amateurs of this kind of literature engage in endless…

— Michel Parry

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

— Whitley Strieber