Fear Quote by Rayne Hall Download Open image ““Fear is essential in horror fiction. Gore is optional.”” — Rayne Hall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fear Horror-fiction Reading Writing
“horror MUST stimulate the reader’s mental pressure points more effectively and more consistently than other genres.” — Joe Mynhardt Copy Share Image
“When you say you’re a fan of the gore, what do you mean?” “The all supernatural bunch, love. The scarier the merrier.” — Patricia Morais Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The most incomprehensible aspect of horror is that there is nothing to understand. Horror is incredibly shallow and common. One only needs two things… — Albert Sánchez Piñol Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it!” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
“Those who boast of their dislike of horror movies are only revealing their inability to surrender control and have fun. Avoid.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Now, he could do without the horror movie that was stubbornly playing in his mind, adding to his overwhelming fear.” — Brian Harmon Copy Share Image
“I think horror, when done well, is one of the most direct and honest ways to get to the core of the human experience… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Automatically, like all healthy, normal beings, I deny the existence of horror...” — Leland Hall Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Horror is the only genre where you don't have to explain everything. Things happen just because and that alone makes it scary.” — R.A. Horn Copy Share Image
“I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in.” — Rayne Hall Copy Share Image
“Research" is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING” — Rayne Hall Copy Share Image
“Writing style can be descriptive without being wordy - and wordy without being descriptive” — Rayne Hall Copy Share Image
“Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.” — Rayne Hall Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“That horrible stinging sensation returned, the muscles behind my eyes straining as the first tear began to fall. “I’m scared, too. For eighteen months… — Devon Ashley Copy Share Image
“...Often that which most we fear births the resolve that spurs us on to altitudes we could not have achieved, had we continued walking… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Anything that you find yourself worrying about regularly may find you suddenly wanting unrealistic changes.” — Nagisa Tatsumi Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“Snip off the little worries and expressions of worry” like little branches atop a tall tree.28 If you are truly worried, sharing your concerns… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image