Books Quote by Whitley Strieber Download Open image “I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.” — Whitley Strieber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Horror Literature Should
“I think horror can and should be classy. I enjoy seeing it raised up not lowered down to the lowest common denominator. There's prejudice… — Carole Gill Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“At this point, a few words on this term 'horror' are perhaps called for. Some amateurs of this kind of literature engage in endless… — Michel Parry Copy Share Image
“The standards for horror fiction should be no less than those for 'serious literary' fiction in which originality of concept, depth of characters, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail as a… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“There are those who don't understand the nobility of horror fiction. 'Isn't there enough horror in the world?' they ask. For all other forms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Horror is not a genre, it is an emotion. It is a progressive form of fiction, one that evolves to meet the fears and… — Douglas E. Winter Copy Share Image
“Whomever or whatever the visitors are, their activities go far beyond a mere study of mankind. They are involved with us on very deep… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
A real stunner. Want to get swept up on a journey you will never forget and never quite escape? Open THE RITUAL OF ILLUSION… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
Everytime someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion.… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities after death? — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
Why were my visitors so secretive, hiding themselves behind my consciousness. I could only conclude that they were using me and did not want… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not. — Whitley Strieber 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
