Top 18 James Herbert Quotes
#1. I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.
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#2. I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.
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#3. I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
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#4. I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.
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#5. Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.
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#6. I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.
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#7. I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love.
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#8. I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.
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#9. Terror was the key, of course, for there's a fine line between paralyzing dread and galvanizing fright.
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#10. I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.
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#11. I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.
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#12. Now get out in that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans
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#13. I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.
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#14. To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.
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#15. For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.
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#16. I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.
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#18. Drip, drip, the rain comes falling, Rain in the woods, rain on the sea; Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling As if to find shelter here with me.
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