Books Quote by Stephen King

My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this…

— Stephen King

“I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do…

— David Foster Wallace

In the right circumstances, terror is good. It makes you focus.

— Eddie the Eagle

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

— Maximilien Robespierre

Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.

— Christopher Isherwood

terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind

— Charles Bukowski

Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

— Anonymous

Terror works by surprise.

— Peter Hitchens

I don't believe terror and horror are just vicarious pleasures. I think it routes itself in your mind. It can affect your mind. Look…

— Richard Matheson

Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your…

— Tim O'Brien

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the…

— Robertson Davies

Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and…

— Nancy Gibbs