Adaptation Quote by Richard Matheson Download Open image ““For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.”” — Richard Matheson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adaptation Language
I never actually wanted to write horror, oddly enough. It was a kind of misnomer, because I didn't ever actually write horror in the… — Peter James Copy Share Image
“It’s horrible," she said. He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“Automatically, like all healthy, normal beings, I deny the existence of horror...” — Leland Hall Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and… — Leo Tolstoy 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
“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 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
“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
“I don’t believe I write horror as a means to conquer fear, no. As for my childhood fears, I mostly feared real threats such… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“He thought about that visionary lady. To die, he thought, never knowing the fierce joy and attendant comfort of a loved one's embrace. To… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“All right, little boy, he tried kidding himself, calm down now. Santa Claus is coming to town with all the nice answers. No longer… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“It’s horrible," she said. He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
“Why I am Passionate and Dedicated 1000% to producing and bringing my books Loving Summer, Bitter Frost, and other book series to the Screen… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep… — Alexander Agassiz Copy Share Image
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The tendency for depression to repeat reflects the normal default settings of a plastic mood system that is open to experience. The unfortunate consequence… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
