Habits Quote by Suzanne Wright

“Twilight was reaching its climax, no doubt: the last fires of the sun, like a violent dermatitis, ruched and ravined the horizon, giving it…

— Eric Laurrent

“A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows...but to reach into them too.”

— Thomas Scopel

“Although the frightful is, perhaps rightly, conjoined in our minds with the darkly coloured, the harshly dissonant - with bludgeon blows and the odours…

— John Franklin Bardin

“Sleepy, I kissed the juncture of his collarbone, and we said goodnight as my heart ached the way it normally did with the power…

— Vee Hoffman

“It was the worst--the bleakest, the most physically exhausting, the most emotionally enervating--writing experience I'd had...I felt, and feared, that the book was controlling…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“The thought of people reading in the sun, on a beach, tempts me to recommend dark books, written in the shadow of loneliness, despair,…

— Anatole Broyard

“So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all your fears and anxieties and insecurities and taking them…

— Stephen King

“And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to is not any pleasure of these things, but…

— Northrop Frye

“I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books. They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings that sometimes…

— Mary Shelley

“Its aura distorts hard edges. Shimmering vortices of discoloration boil off, swirling, licking the cold night air with bright spectral fire. Violence and death,…

— Michael Allan Scott

“The daylight changes the aspect of misery to us, as of everything else. In the night it presses on our imagination—the forms it takes…

— George Eliot