Chizmar Quotes

#1. THE POETRY OF LIFE RICHARD CHIZMAR I

Michael Bailey

#2. Religion is about creation, and for that reason religion should be about the earth.

Laurie Cabot

#3. The first three issues of 'Cemetery Dance' were mainly horror, but now it's really a cross-genre magazine. It's all just snowballed.

Richard Chizmar

#4. Subtle horror is where you rarely see the blood and gore. The violent people are called splatter-punks, who prefer graphic, unrelenting, violent, fast-paced horror. I prefer horror stories with mysterious elements that are chock-full of suspense.

Richard Chizmar

#5. Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity.

Pearl Zhu

#6. The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.

Sharon Olds

#7. To be publishing Stephen King, to be a friend to Stephen, when he is absolutely what got me into this business, is a really neat thing and something I don't take for granted.

Richard Chizmar

#8. My neighborhood was like 'The Wonder Years.' We played until 10 o'clock at night. We used to tell scary stories. I was the one scaring them. We used to play football by this place called the Myer's House. It was a big, spooky house with the gables; we'd hang out there and scare each other.

Richard Chizmar

#9. Yeah his being Sumerian to this group would go over like an Ozzy Osbourne/Marilyn Manson duet at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting. He might as well be wearing a shit that said "Kibbles and Bits," with a heavy emphasis on the "bits" part ...

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.

Bertrand Russell

#11. Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It's time to start thinking.

Ernest Rutherford

#12. You are pulling down heaven and raising up a whore

Arthur Miller

#13. If I was a father, and my son told me he wanted to go out and be a publisher, I'd say, 'Go get a job.'

Richard Chizmar