Books Quote by Sarah Pinborough Download Open image “I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.” — Sarah Pinborough ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books First Five Horror Novels Teaching While Wrote
Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Whenever I would see horror movies I would be traumatized and I'd have to watch them behind my hands or behind the couch sometimes.… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
'A Head Full of Ghosts' was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
I've been writing since 1973. I've written nonfiction things of that nature, but I'm probably best known for crime fiction and, to some extent,… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I did a lot of stuff before I became known for horror. I did a lot of small films in the '70s, in all… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
“For me, life has always been the storm. The storm and watching from the window for the thing that could stop it, even if… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it's… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“Something is building, bubbling in my stomach, flaring into white heat, and I don't know if it will explode out of me in anxiety… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places gives you… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“The past is as ephemeral as the future—it’s all perspective and smoke and mirrors.” — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version of the… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
We all love a bit of 'true love conquers all,' and when I started on 'Poison,' 'Charm' and 'Beauty,' that was one rule of… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there are just too many words filling up space and not enough emptiness left for thinking. I keep a little emptiness inside for… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
I'm very much, like, 'We've all got to help each other.' If there's a new female writer, I'm much more likely to read her… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
