Chet Williamson Quotes

#1. Don said, "By any chance did someone come in to confess while I was out, and just maybe you forgot to mention it?" Corrine said no one had.

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#2. In Europe it was once commonly believed that beasts could be possessed by demons and controlled by the evil of Satan. So animals, even birds and insects, were tried by ecclesiastical courts, just like witches and heretics. They were excommunicated, tortured and condemned to death.

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#3. When you met people, they were on their best behavior, smiles and best manners. You couldn't tell what lurked beneath the surface

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#4. When I read a book, I like to be surprised. I don't want to read the same genre formula that I've read a hundred times before.

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#5. The pickup bumped heavily over the worn and stony footpath. The up-down motion made Cliff belch. He hit the break and came to a full stop in order to take a pull from the bottle. This was one time he couldn't drink while driving.

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#6. If you got the chance, you acted. If you sat back and waited and hoped that something good would come along and save you, or fix what you were too frightened or weak or stupid to fix for yourself, you could wait a lifetime and still be trapped.

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#7. He'd read that rage remained forever in a place that had once nurtured it. "The spirit of the place.

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#8. Good! Brad thought. Great! I can see the headline now: MORGANTOWN MYSTERY DISEASE FELLS ALL CHILDREN, BUT TOLL PALES IN COMPARISON WITH BLACK DEATH. CDC OFFICIALS GREATLY RELIEVED!

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#9. GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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#10. The customers were mainly people middle-aged or older, and they'd probably take a sledge hammer to anything that spewed out the top forty. This was Lawrence Welk country. A wild tune was a polka.

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#11. It's just that I think we should be responsible for our friends, is all. If we're not, why bother to have friends?

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#12. Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.

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#13. Warriors in some cultures drink the blood of their enemies. Some people consume the blood of animals." "As a rule, here on Ice Island, they restrain themselves.

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#14. This is an age when men hide their deepest fears and instincts behind a mask of rationality. Mankind has become a herd of sheep which does not believe in the existence of wolves.

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#15. There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.

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#16. Gossip? Me? How would I know about such things?" "Don't think of it as gossip. Think of it as rumor and innuendo.

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#17. If I had stayed purely a horror writer or thriller writer, I might have more of a presence in those particular genres, and I'd certainly have more individual titles to market, since it's much easier to write pure genre fiction than it is to create something different.

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#18. All he knew was that the rage was still there, eating inside him, not with the slow stealth of a cancer, but with the rapid, careless ravening of a weasel gnawing at his entrails, or the constant alimentary torment that drives on the shark to his incessant feeding until only death gives him rest.

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#19. October 31st dawned damp and cold, but by nine in the morning the misty rain had dissipated, and blue sky broke through. By eleven the sun had dried the leaves to crisp colors, and the world smelled of apples and burning wood smoke and candles and pumpkin innards.

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#20. Dark is dark in the darkness.

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#21. Garris had pet names for all of them. Mahler was the Mad Doktor. Franz Liszt was Son of Lovecraft. Mendelssohn was Santa Claus Meets the Hell's Angels. Beethoven was the High School Principal.

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#22. Hope springs eternal in the town of dreams...and so does despair and humiliation.

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#23. One minute, he thought, you're allowed the illusion that things are pretty much the way they've always been and always will be. Next time you turn around, some pinhead rips the world out from under you, and the weirdness starts pouring in from every direction ...

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#24. Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking.

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#25. Kate had attended a Presbyterian church with her family in Norfolk; she'd heard how the God of Moses could flip out and go pretty damn nuts when things didn't turn out His way.

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#26. Merridale was as self-centered as a Broadway star on opening night.

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