Bad guy Quote by Sergio Aragones

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

“The hardest part of writing a story is making bad things happen to good people. The hardest part of writing horror is knowing that…

— Allison M. Dickson

I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are…

— Cecelia Ahern

People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.

— Mel Gibson

A really good horror film has a story.

— Dee Wallace

I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though…

— Dan Chaon

“Good horror is written by people who understand that fear is one of the cardinal passageways into the core of humanity. Good horror is…

— Alistair Cross

What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than…

— Andrew Pyper

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

— John Carpenter

Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for…

— Bentley Little

I find campfire stories and urban legends are kind of the bread and butter that inspires a lot of people who are making horror…

— Jordan Peele

Anybody who sits down to write, and they think 'thriller,' maybe shouldn't be thinking that way. Maybe we should be thinking 'novel,' maybe 'thriller'…

— David Morrell