Bunnies Quote by Patrick Carman

Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was…

— R. L. Stine

I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.

— Melissa de la Cruz

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put…

— R. L. Stine

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

— Judy Blume

Think about the stories you have inside that scare you. That's what you should be writing. I and others call that writing from the…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

— Brian Pinkerton

My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by…

— Marco Roth

It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone…

— Etgar Keret

I've been writing stories all my life. My very first story had two little black girls riding horses. They were both me, too, so…

— Tomi Adeyemi

The stories I create are never as awful as reality.

— Henning Mankell

I build my stories character-first, and so whether it's a monster or a ghost or a serial killer, the fear of something dark interrupting…

— Bryan Bertino