Top 23 Richard Laymon Quotes
#1. My eyes are brown. So are my teeth.
Just kidding about the teeth.
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#2. No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.
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#3. A coward dies many times. A brave man never tastes of death but once.
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#5. Gonna get me one of them Jeep Cherokees with the four-wheel drive, and go all over the whole country in it.
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#6. Window. All the ruckus, of course, woke up everyone in the house. Lilly's room was right up there. She
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#7. My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my books to give a whole spectrum of experiences to my readers. Not just fear or terror or revulsion, but excitement, laughter, pain, sorrow, desire, etc.
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#8. the remnants of her Georgia drawl always sounded a bit sad. She made him think of an aging Scarlett O'Hara torn from Tara's halls but clinging to her pride and, with the help of a beauty parlor, her flaming hair.
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#9. Killing, resurrecting, living with a zombie. Even if she could accept all that,
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#10. In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.
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#11. I don't worry much about whether or not one of my stories contains elements of the supernatural. If I come up with what I think is a nifty concept, I'll give it a whirl.
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#12. Wielding a hammer, however, you're at the very heart of the experience, being flooded with wonderful sensations that simply can't be yours if you use a firearm. Now, you might be asking yourself how I came to discover the splendors of hammer attack. I'll tell you. You won't want to hear it, though.
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#13. That sort of aloneness gives you goosebumps scurrying up your spine. It makes your scalp crawl.
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#17. Now you got us whammied with the curse of squirmy death.
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#18. Muttering, "Fuck it," he threw his finger away. It hit the wall. He heard the quiet thunk through the sounds of helicopters. Must
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#19. And he pictured her down below, turning slowly in the currents, her skin pale blue in the cold rays of sunlight slanting down through the water, her hair flowing lazily around her face.
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#20. Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion.
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#21. It's been my experience that worse-case scenarios are very rare indeed. Rare to the extend that you can almost count on them not happening.
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#22. The earth is a far a better place, now that she's beneath it.
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#23. Horror writers are specialists in the worst-case scenario.
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