Bad guy Quote by Stephen King

Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale…

— Rose McGowan

Edgar Allan Poe is amazing because he was so dark. He's from Baltimore and so cynical that you can feel it when you're reading,…

— Goldlink

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

— Paul Valery

I love horror, mystery, and science fiction, and Poe was one of the founding fathers of those worlds.

— Matt Czuchry

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

— Ray Bradbury

I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was one of…

— Ezra Miller

I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a…

— Paul Auster

“Poe had invented a genre—the detective story—that played upon but in the end relieved his readers’ urban anxieties. Social order was possible after all,…

— Mike Wallace

Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years…

— Dove Cameron

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

— Tony Kushner

If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant…

— Dean Koontz

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms,…

— Helen Oyeyemi