Quote by Richard Wright Download Open image ““And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him.”” — Richard Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I think Poe's quite good, actually. The whole casual horror thing. Like someone standing next to you and screaming their head off and you… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“He clasped his hands to his ears as if he would tear his very brain out!" A sample line from Shadow my psychological/horror compared… — C.S. Dixon Copy Share Image
Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
“...I had stood outside of Poe's house on 3rd street, too, and had done the same thing, staring mournfully up at the windows. The… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.” — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost as though… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“Everyone rushes wherever his instincts impel him, the populace swarms like insects over a corpse, poets pass by without having the time to sculpt… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Automatically, like all healthy, normal beings, I deny the existence of horror...” — Leland Hall Copy Share Image
“Perhaps at the end, when the masks of horror were laid aside, there was nothing with which the human mind could not cope.” — Stephen King 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
“My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of teror, tension, and anxiety. I wondered how long I could bear it.” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my father was… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Color hate defined the place of black life as below that of white life; and the black man, responding to the same dreams as… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of my emotional… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
