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I don't think there's anything sweeter on God's green earth than scaring the living shit out of people. ~ Stephen King
Horror Fiction quotes by Stephen King
Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable. ~ Michael McDowell
Horror Fiction quotes by Michael McDowell
February 9th was HIS day. The day he always striked. ~ Mary Papas
Horror Fiction quotes by Mary Papas
Whose Daddy's Little Girl Now? ~ Lauren Bradshaw
Horror Fiction quotes by Lauren Bradshaw
Most people think of Stephen King as a horror author, but his best work usually comes with a side order of nostalgic Americana. ~ Stewart Stafford
Horror Fiction quotes by Stewart Stafford
And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity. ~ Benjamin Kane Ethridge
Horror Fiction quotes by Benjamin Kane Ethridge
You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me. ~ J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Horror Fiction quotes by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade. ~ K. Hari Kumar
Horror Fiction quotes by K. Hari Kumar
Tom Farrell had always wished Hell on his boss. On New Years Eve ... Hell sent someone.
-Along For The Ride- ~ Thomas Amo
Horror Fiction quotes by Thomas Amo
I'm haunted. We all are, I guess. We're parentless, friendless, unloved, abandoned. The spirits of our deceased emotional anchors and proofs of existence will follow and demean us until we too roam a quiet lifeless world alongside them - unable to speak - our histories written in beach sand. ~ Jason S. Hornsby
Horror Fiction quotes by Jason S. Hornsby
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 of literature, the value of human life is optional. For horror fiction, it's absolutely necessary. If we don't value the life of the threatened protagonist, we can't be scared. And through our fear, we better understand the individual fears and values of our species across the world. ~ E.C. McMullen Jr.
Horror Fiction quotes by E.C. McMullen Jr.
He got up and ran on, pitching himself down the hill, flying through the branches of the firs, leaping roots and rocks without seeing them. As he went, the hill got steeper and steeper, until it was really like falling. He was going too fast and he knew when he came to a stop, it would involve crashing into something, and shattering pain.

Only as he went on, picking up speed all the time, until with each leap he seemed to sail through yards of darkness, he felt a giddy surge of emotion, a sensation that might have been panic but felt strangely like exhilaration. He felt as if at any moment his feet might leave the ground and never come back down. He knew this forest, this darkness, this night. He knew his chances: not good. He knew what was after him. It had been after him all his life. He knew where he was - in a story about to unfold an ending. He knew better than anyone how these stories went, and if anyone could find their way out of these woods, it was him.

("Best New Horror") ~ Joe Hill
Horror Fiction quotes by Joe Hill
Good horror fiction deals with taboos. It must always go to the limits of what is acceptable. ~ Clive Barker
Horror Fiction quotes by Clive Barker
Mack woke up on a hard bunk, stone walls and iron bars so close they felt like they were closing in on him. ~ Allan Walsh
Horror Fiction quotes by Allan Walsh
Coldness went marching up his arms like the feet of evil fairies. ~ Stephen King
Horror Fiction quotes by Stephen King
As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs. ~ Victor LaValle
Horror Fiction quotes by Victor LaValle
The city had grown, implacably, spreading its concrete and alloy fingers wider every day over the dark and feral country. Nothing could stop it. Mountains were stamped flat. Rivers were dammed off or drained or put elsewhere. The marshes were filled. The animals shot from the trees and then the trees cut down. And the big gray machines moved forward, gobbling up the jungle with their iron teeth, chewing it clean of its life and all its living things.
Until it was no more.
Leveled, smoothed as a highway is smoothed, its centuries choked beneath millions and millions of tons of hardened stone.
The birth of a city ... It had become the death of a world. ~ Charles Beaumont
Horror Fiction quotes by Charles Beaumont
I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies. ~ Poppy Z. Brite
Horror Fiction quotes by Poppy Z. Brite
Sometimes, silence become louder than our very fears. ~ Mladen Đorđević
Horror Fiction quotes by Mladen Đorđević
As soon as Todd drove off the motorway it vanished from the mirror, and so did the sun across the moor. ~ Ramsey Campbell
Horror Fiction quotes by Ramsey Campbell
There can be no such thing as "philosophical horror", at least as a premeditated genre. Why? Because philosophy implies enquiry, reflection and an open mind, whereas the genre of horror demands certain conclusions in advance. ~ Quentin S. Crisp
Horror Fiction quotes by Quentin S. Crisp
The best horror is always about more than the horror you see. ~ H.L. Sudler, You Won't Forget Me
Horror Fiction quotes by H.L. Sudler, You Won't Forget Me
You'd rather get stabbed forty-one times than ruin the curb appeal of your home?" Maryellen asked.
"Yes," Grace said. ~ Grady Hendrix
Horror Fiction quotes by Grady Hendrix
No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD. ~ John Raptor
Horror Fiction quotes by John Raptor
The image is an example of how horror writers view our world. A view that is far from the norm. Their writing always seeking that visceral fear in us all. ~ A.K. Kuykendall
Horror Fiction quotes by A.K. Kuykendall
There's always been a need for horror fiction, though
ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature
and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away. Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That's one big horror story. And it's the most popular book on the planet. ~ Bentley Little
Horror Fiction quotes by Bentley Little
Horror is the only genre where you don't have to explain everything. Things happen just because and that alone makes it scary. ~ R.A. Horn
Horror Fiction quotes by R.A. Horn
But I could hear Mitzi nearby. She was still upstairs. If she saw me reading the comic book, she'd run downstairs and tell Dad for sure. Mitzi's hobby is being a snitch. ~ R.L. Stine
Horror Fiction quotes by R.L. Stine
My Nana Westbrook, true as a saint's prayer, always used to say the Devil was a woman thought up by the Good Lord Himself to test a man's mettle and drag him down to Hell if he came up short and, Lordy, I sure as hell kept my granny's wise words to heart, God rest her soul, never once dipping my stick in a place where it might get snapped. ~ Ojo Blacke
Horror Fiction quotes by Ojo Blacke
every fictional world was a work of fantasy, and whenever writers introduce a threat or a conflict into their story, they create the possibility of horror. He had been drawn to horror fiction, he said, because it took the most basic elements of literature and pushed them to their extremes. All fiction was make-believe, which made fantasy more valid (and honest) than realism. He ~ Joe Hill
Horror Fiction quotes by Joe Hill
My whole life changed after I drowned and died in the flood. ~ Kerry Alan Denney
Horror Fiction quotes by Kerry Alan Denney
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you. ~ Jennifer Weiner
Horror Fiction quotes by Jennifer Weiner
Shadowchild! - Don't let her get in your head! ~ Matthew Williams
Horror Fiction quotes by Matthew Williams
No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. ~ Mylo Carbia
Horror Fiction quotes by Mylo Carbia
The grass of many years has sprung up and withered on that grave, the burial-stone is mossgrown, and good Mr. Hooper's face is dust; but awful is still the thought that it mouldered beneath the black veil. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Horror Fiction quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
She got injun fire in her blood, as I hear tell it, and it seem to me Lucy about ripe to snap a crack in that jumping bean she call a head. ~ Ojo Blacke
Horror Fiction quotes by Ojo Blacke
Step, step, step, I fall and they lift me, slip-slop, slip-slop, through the watery mud. Each step is a heartbeat on my way to the grave, and the longest walk I will ever take. Plip, plip, I slip and they gather me. How strong are these savages, and how tight is their grip! Plip, plip, plip patters the rain, and I fall, and I call, and I stall for more time.

But my time has run out. ~ Louise Blackwick
Horror Fiction quotes by Louise Blackwick
Only a few can survive and face reality without a vice. ~ Jacob Wild
Horror Fiction quotes by Jacob Wild
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything. ~ James Dyson
Horror Fiction quotes by James Dyson
What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than external ones, mapping out the mind as the home for scary things instead of the house at the end of the lane or lakeside campground or abandoned amusement park. ~ Andrew Pyper
Horror Fiction quotes by Andrew Pyper
There are many dark corners in the many universes. Don't continue on if you are afraid to explore the dark, brutal and absurd ~ David Agranoff
Horror Fiction quotes by David Agranoff
He wants your soul' from Mina Harker: The Curse of the Vampire ~ Louise Lake
Horror Fiction quotes by Louise Lake
Madness is in the mind of the beholder. ~ D'Monic Boris Lee
Horror Fiction quotes by D'Monic Boris Lee
Teacher's pet Teacher's pet.. Your feeling so perplexed ... Your friend has gone into pieces and you'll be next ... ~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
Horror Fiction quotes by Richie Tankersley Cusick
You were dropped as a child, weren't you?" Varen asked her.
"Maybe once or twice," Gwen said, "but at least I wasn't raised by highly literate vampires who, every night just before bed, fed me a steady diet of dark sarcasm and gothic horror fiction."
"Every morning before bed," Varen corrected. Stepping forward, he moved toward the headstone. "We slept during the day. ~ Kelly Creagh
Horror Fiction quotes by Kelly Creagh
Give me B movies or give me death! ~ Clive Barker
Horror Fiction quotes by Clive Barker
Q: Do you have any advice for upcoming writers who want to pen weird stories?

A: READ, damn it. Fill your brain to the bursting point with the good stuff, starting with writers that you truly enjoy, and then work your way backward and outward, reading those writers who inspired the writers you love best. That was my path as far as Weird/Horror Fiction, starting with Lovecraft, and then working my way backward/outward on the Weird Fiction spiderweb. And don't limit your reading. Read it all, especially non-fiction and various news outlets. You'd be surprised by how many of my story ideas were born while listening to NPR, perusing a blog, or paging through Vanity Fair.

Once you have your fuel squared away, just write what you love, in whatever style and genre. You'll never have fun being someone you're not, so be yourself. When a singer opens their mouth, what comes out is what comes out.

Also, don't be afraid to fail, and don't be afraid to walk away. Writing isn't for everyone, and that's totally fine. One doesn't need to be a writer to enjoy being a reader and overall fan of genre or wider fiction. ~ T.E. Grau
Horror Fiction quotes by T.E. Grau
Evil should not be, Detective Vera. Truly never can be. But in defining it as such, an inherent human bond with negativity confirms its very existence. Its mere acknowledgement cancels its credibility. Evil is nothing - the lack of anything of substance - made concrete as a balance to everything else. Evil is not, yet it is a part of
each human, because humans welcome its participation in their lives. They speak of it in anger or disgust, fear or even wonder - the most appropriate response - giving it a stronger foundation with every passing thought it distorts. Though within their pliable minds, they welcome it with the glee of the ignorant, nurturing the unthinkable, thinking the unimaginable, imagining the most horrid, abysmal designs, embellishing them with an insidious veracity until evil is as substantial a reality as their next breath. I strive for something else, beyond evil's claustrophobic clutches. I strive to transcend evil by becoming pure nothing. I strive as my followers strived." He paused, his ideology a cancer, spreading… "I am, yet I strive to not be. Do you understand, comrade?" His tone suggested fellowship, disciples of the same obscene religion. ... ~ John Claude Smith
Horror Fiction quotes by John Claude Smith
Drifting on the black, rippling surface were fingers. Thumbs. Dozens of them. Hundreds, floating like dead fish in a dynamited pond. I saw part of an ear. The lights went out. ~ Glen Hirshberg
Horror Fiction quotes by Glen Hirshberg
Where evil walks, hell follows. ~ Asa Swift
Horror Fiction quotes by Asa Swift
I told you. I've been watching." She twirled, her arms outstretched. "Watching, watching, watching. ~ A.F. Stewart
Horror Fiction quotes by A.F. Stewart
I like all my things to go right."
"That's not how the world works."
"It's how it should work," I say. I like plans that go smoothly. That's the beauty I believe in. Nothing is better than when things go exactly how I expect."
"I know that's what you like," he says, eyes squinting out the sun to peer down at me. "And there's comfort in that, sure. But there's comfort in knowing that when your plans fall apart, you can survive. That the worst thing imaginable can happen, but you can get through it. That's why I like to read horror fiction. It's not about the monsters. It's about the hero surviving them and living to tell the tale. ~ Jenn Bennett
Horror Fiction quotes by Jenn Bennett
The wicked have no empathy for the pure. ~ Haley Newlin
Horror Fiction quotes by Haley Newlin
It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria. ~ Adam Nevill
Horror Fiction quotes by Adam Nevill
At night, when i go to bed i still am at pains to be sure that my legs are under the blankets after the lights go out. I am not a child anymore but .. Because if a cool hand ever reached out from under the bed and grasped my ankle, i might scream. ~ Stephen King
Horror Fiction quotes by Stephen King
I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films. ~ Matt Reeves
Horror Fiction quotes by Matt Reeves
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. ~ Clive Barker
Horror Fiction quotes by Clive Barker
Don't allow yourself to become the monster humans wish to make you. Don't live down to their expectations or try to absorb their morality. They're not worth it. ~ C.T. Phipps
Horror Fiction quotes by C.T. Phipps
At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them. ~ Clive Barker
Horror Fiction quotes by Clive Barker
Eddie Carroll had just come in from outside, and read Noonan's letter standing in the mudroom. He flipped to the beginning of the story. He stood reading for almost five minutes before noticing he was uncomfortably warm. He tossed his jacket at a hook and wandered into the kitchen.

He sat for a while on the stairs to the second floor, turning through the pages. Then he was stretched on the couch in his office, head on a pile of books, reading in a slant of late October light, with no memory of how he had got there.

He rushed through to the ending, then sat up, in the grip of a strange, bounding exuberance. He thought it was possibly the rudest, most awful thing he had ever read, and in his case that was saying something. He had waded through the rude and awful for most of his professional life, and in those fly-blown and diseased literary swamps had discovered flowers of unspeakable beauty, of which he was sure this was one. It was cruel and perverse and he had to have it. He turned to the beginning and started reading again.

("Best New Horror") ~ Joe Hill
Horror Fiction quotes by Joe Hill
Let's say it once and for all: Poe and Lovecraft - not to mention a Bruno Schulz or a Franz Kafka - were what the world at large would consider extremely disturbed individuals. And most people who are that disturbed are not able to create works of fiction. These and other names I could mention are people who are just on the cusp of total psychological derangement. Sometimes they cross over and fall into the province of 'outsider artists.' That's where the future development of horror fiction lies - in the next person who is almost too emotionally and psychologically damaged to live in the world but not too damaged to produce fiction. ~ Thomas Ligotti
Horror Fiction quotes by Thomas Ligotti
An old adage warns: If you don't know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Likewise, if you don't know your science fiction, and heed its warnings, you could condemn the Earth to future catastrophe. ~ Kelly Steed
Horror Fiction quotes by Kelly Steed
Every house has a story to tell. ~ Riley Sager
Horror Fiction quotes by Riley Sager
Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language. ~ Alice McDermott
Horror Fiction quotes by Alice McDermott
This one sank deep into her marrow and made her heart soar like the shuttles piercing the stratosphere. ~ Katherine McIntyre
Horror Fiction quotes by Katherine McIntyre
Now the city is at its loveliest. The crowds of summer and autumn have gone, the air has a new freshness, the light has that pale-gold quality unique to this time of year. There have been several weeks of this weather now, without a drop of rain. ~ Lucy Foley
Horror Fiction quotes by Lucy Foley
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation. ~ Marquis De Sade
Horror Fiction quotes by Marquis De Sade
Every immortal has their kryptonite. No one said immortality was the best thing ever, most would call it a curse. ~ Venus Morales
Horror Fiction quotes by Venus Morales
A weapon needs a wielder; it should not be permitted to start its own fights."
"You are not my wielder; you are naught, a forgotten ghost, not even a memory."
"Maybe, but you are still a weapon. ~ Angelo Tsanatelis
Horror Fiction quotes by Angelo Tsanatelis
Lexi was older now than she'd been in kindergarten. Her brain functioned with more logic and less emotion. Gabriel knew it would be harder this time. Now Lexi had to make sense of things before she believed in them. ~ Angela Panayotopulos
Horror Fiction quotes by Angela Panayotopulos
Oh no, this was real. And it just went to show that her secret weakness in literary escapism did not translate well into reality. The last thing she needed or wanted in real life was a bonded alpha male. Romantic fiction aside, they were serious jackass material. ~ Trisha McCallan
Horror Fiction quotes by Trisha McCallan
Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place of fiction. ~ Ben Mezrich
Horror Fiction quotes by Ben Mezrich
It is understandable if you are struggling to reconcile images of a smooth moving Justin Timberlake singing, "I'm bringing sexy back…" with the experience of working in aged care! Sexy is often everything that aged care is not. But by using the word "sexy" I am not referring to the high octane experience of being intimate with someone. Who knows though, your older adult clients may well want to talk about such things! How senior friendly to encourage this? What I am referring to is bringing the spice or pizzazz associated with respect back to our Western society that appears to have lost its way in valuing seniors. ~ Felicity Chapman
Horror Fiction quotes by Felicity Chapman
There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. ~ Fred Saberhagen
Horror Fiction quotes by Fred Saberhagen
We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds. ~ T.L. Rese
Horror Fiction quotes by T.L. Rese
I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read. ~ Karen Thompson Walker
Horror Fiction quotes by Karen Thompson Walker
What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils being lifted, seeing more of the beauty and also the horror. A sense of my own purpose in this life. Love ... ~ Ottessa Moshfegh
Horror Fiction quotes by Ottessa Moshfegh
Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place. ~ D.H. Lawrence
Horror Fiction quotes by D.H. Lawrence
Let's press ahead a little further by sketching out a few variations among short shorts:

ONE THRUST OF INCIDENT. (Examples: Paz,
Mishima, Shalamov, Babel, W. C. Williams.) In these short shorts the time span is extremely brief, a few hours, maybe even a few minutes: Life is grasped in symbolic compression. One might say that these short shorts constitute epiphanies (climactic moments of high grace or realization) that have been tom out of their contexts. You have to supply the contexts yourself, since if the contexts were there, they'd no longer be short shorts.

LIFE ROLLED UP. (Examples: Tolstoy's 'Alyosha the Pot,' Verga's 'The Wolf,' D. H. Lawrence's 'A Sick Collier.') In these you get the illusion of sustained narrative, since they deal with lives over an extended period of time; but actually these lives are so compressed into typicality and paradigm, the result seems very much like a single incident. Verga's 'Wolf' cannot but repeat her passions, Tolstoy's Alyosha his passivity. Themes of obsession work especially well in this kind of short short.

SNAP-SHOT OR SINGLE FRAME. (Examples: Garda Marquez, Boll, Katherine Anne Porter.) In these we have no depicted event or incident, only an interior monologue or flow of memory. A voice speaks, as it were, into the air. A mind is revealed in cross-section - and the cut is rapid. One would guess that this is the hardest kind of short short to write: There are many pitfalls such as tiresome ~ Irving Howe
Horror Fiction quotes by Irving Howe
Commander. The world needs a certain type of person like you who cares, to make things better - Awa ~ Rehan Khan
Horror Fiction quotes by Rehan Khan
The funny thing about games and fictions is that they have a weird way of bleeding into reality. Whatever else it is, the world that humans experience is animated with narratives, rituals, and roles that organize psychological experience, social relations, and our imaginative grasp of the material cosmos. The world, then, is in many ways a webwork of fictions, or, better yet, of stories. The contemporary urge to "gamify" our social and technological interactions is, in this sense, simply an extension of the existing games of subculture, of folklore, even of belief. This is the secret truth of the history of religions: not that religions are "nothing more" than fictions, crafted out of sociobiological need or wielded by evil priests to control ignorant populations, but that human reality possesses an inherently fictional or fantastic dimension whose "game engine" can - and will - be organized along variously visionary, banal, and sinister lines. Part of our obsession with counterfactual genres like sci-fi or fantasy is not that they offer escape from reality - most of these genres are glum or dystopian a lot of the time anyway - but because, in reflecting the "as if" character of the world, they are actually realer than they appear. ~ Erik Davis
Horror Fiction quotes by Erik Davis
There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned. ~ Isaac Asimov
Horror Fiction quotes by Isaac Asimov
I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models. ~ Leila Aboulela
Horror Fiction quotes by Leila Aboulela
Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed on anyone who has written fantastic fiction. He will find reviewers, both favourable and hostile, reading into his stories all manner of allegorical meanings which he never intended. (Some of the allegories thus imposed on my own books have been so ingenious and interesting that I often wish I had thought of them myself.) ~ C.S. Lewis
Horror Fiction quotes by C.S. Lewis
In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward. ~ Amy Tan
Horror Fiction quotes by Amy Tan
When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway. ~ Michael Koryta
Horror Fiction quotes by Michael Koryta
Well, I don't know about you girls," Patti called out, "but I'm starving. You wanna help me throw everything together before I go check on the chicken?"

The twins shared uncertain expressions.

"Sure, we'll help," I answered for them. "What do you need us to do?"

"All right, how about you and Marna make the salad, and Ginger can help me bake this cake."

Their eyes filled with horror.

"You mean like chopping things?" Marna whispered.

"Yeah. It's not hard. We'll do it together." At my prompting they stood but made no move toward the kitchen with me.

"I'm not sure you ought to trust me with a knife," Marna said.

"Or me with baked goods," Ginger added. I'd never seen her so unsure of herself. If it were just me making the request, she'd tell me to go screw myself, but neither girl seemed to know how to act around Patti. They fidgeted and glanced at the kitchen.

Patti came over and took Ginger by the arm.

"You'll both be fine," Patti insisted. "It'll be fun!"

The seriousness of the twins in the kitchen was comical. They took each step of their jobs with slow, attentive detail, checking and double-checking the measurements while Patti ran out to flip the chicken. Somewhere halfway through, the girls loosened up and we started chatting. Patti put Ginger at ease in a way I'd never seen her. At one point we were all laughing and I realized I'd never seen Ginger laugh ~ Wendy Higgins
Horror Fiction quotes by Wendy Higgins
Depression was like wearing tinted glasses and looking through them changed one's perception dramatically. A fancy new house could be construed as a bunch of boards nailed together. ~ A. J. Gallant
Horror Fiction quotes by A. J. Gallant
Like many of the kids I write about, I once was a runaway myself - and a few (but not all) of the other writers in the series also come from troubled backgrounds. That early experience influences my fiction, no doubt, but I don't think it's necessary to come from such a background in order to write a good Bordertown tale. To me, "running away to Bordertown" is as much a metaphorical act as an actual one. These tales aren't just for kids who have literally run away from home, but also for every kid, every person, who "runs away" from a difficult or constrictive past to build a different kind of life in some new place. Some of us "run away" to college . . . or we "run away" to a distant city or state . . . or we "run away" from a safe, secure career path to follow our passions or artistic muse. We "run away" from places we don't belong, or from families we have never fit into. We "run away" to find ourselves, or to find others like ourselves, or to find a place where we finally truly belong. And that kind of "running away from home" - the everyday, metaphorical kind - can be just as hard, lonely, and disorienting as crossing the Nevernever to Bordertown . . . particularly when you're in your teens, or early twenties, and your resources (both inner and outer) are still limited. I want to tell stories for young people who are making that journey, or contemplating making that journey. Stories in which friendship, community, and art is the "magic" that lights the way.

(s ~ Terri Windling
Horror Fiction quotes by Terri Windling
But in an instant Blake stepped in front of her, turning his back to Chris and the gun. The shot was so much louder than anything else in the woods. And it seemed to echo forever. Livia watched Blake's face in horror as he fell toward her, leaning for a moment like the Tower of Pisa. She staggered back, trying to hold him as they both collapsed to the forest floor. Livia knew he was tremendously injured when his body hit hers so hard. If he could have, she knew Blake would've softened the blow. ~ Debra Anastasia
Horror Fiction quotes by Debra Anastasia
Trying to find answers to why and how my life got into such a dismal mess, I sought answers in the scriptures, in religion and philosophy, but it only confused me further. Stories, on the other hand, helped me cope, heal and recover. ~ Indu Muralidharan
Horror Fiction quotes by Indu Muralidharan
These words on the screen represented her latest project, an attempt at a series of commercial, discreetly feminist crime novels. She had read all of Agatha Christie at eleven years old, and later lots of Chandler and James M.Cain. There seemed no reason why she shouldn't try writing something in between, but she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same-you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again. She found herself unable to think of a name for her detective, let alone a cohesive original plot, and even her pseudonym was poor: Emma T. Wilde? She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things. She had tried being in a band, writing plays and children's books, she had tried acting and getting a job in publishing. Perhaps crime fiction was just another failed project to place alongside trapeze, Buddhism and Spanish. She used the computer's word counter feature. Thirty-five words, including the title page and her rotten pseudonym. Emma groaned, released the hydraulic lever on the side of her office chair and sank a little closer to the carpet. ~ David Nicholls
Horror Fiction quotes by David Nicholls
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. ~ Norman Mailer
Horror Fiction quotes by Norman Mailer
A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction. ~ John Updike
Horror Fiction quotes by John Updike
Ivy!' I stammered, then glared at Kisten. 'You told Ivy? Thanks a hell of a lot. Want to call my mom next? ~ Kim Harrison
Horror Fiction quotes by Kim Harrison
For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um ... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something ... then yeah, they're old enough. LOL ~ Michelle M. Pillow
Horror Fiction quotes by Michelle M. Pillow
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. ~ V.S. Naipaul
Horror Fiction quotes by V.S. Naipaul
I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable. ~ Anita Brookner
Horror Fiction quotes by Anita Brookner
All I'm saying is that there is a generation gap, and I think it revolves around this public/private thing. Our generation -- we subscribe to the old liberal doctrine of the inviolate self. I'ts the great tradition of realistic fiction, it's what novels are all about. the private life in the foreground, history a distant rumble of gunfire, somewhere offstage. In Jane Austen not even a rumble. Well, the novel is dying, and us with it. No wonder I could never get anything out of my novel-writing class at Euphoric State. It's an unnatural medium for their experience. Those kids...are living a film, not a novel. ~ David Lodge
Horror Fiction quotes by David Lodge
Before this reaches you, you will have learned, the Circumstances of the Insurrections in England,13 which discover So deep and So general a discontent and distress, that no wonder the Nation Stands gazing at one another, in astonishment, and Horror. To what Extremities their Confusions will proceed, no Man can tell. They Seem unable to unite in any Principle and to have no Confidence in one another. Thus it is, when Truth and Virtue are lost: These Surely, are not the People who ought to have absolute authority over Us. In all Cases whatsoever, this is not the nation which is to bring Us to unconditional Submission. ~ Lester J. Cappon
Horror Fiction quotes by Lester J. Cappon
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