Horror Author Quotes

#1. I love horror movies. I consider myself a horror author, sometimes.

Nick Antosca

#2. As a writer, I will go down any dark alley, inch my way through the tightest crawl space, and feed on your every fear. I will take your sense of calm and tear it to shreds. - Horror Author Barbara Watkins

Barbara Watkins

#3. Any writer of horror needs to at least have a good, solid love of the genre. Also, good horror writers need to have a slightly twisted sense of humor. Without humor, horror just isn't as good.

Alistair Cross

#4. She had made Matthew want to smile. With her luminous skin, her exotic cinnamon-colored eyes and quicksilver expressions, Daisy Bowman seemed to have come from an enchanted forest populated with mythical creatures.

Lisa Kleypas

#5. It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.

Stephen King

#6. Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.

T.E. Lawrence

#7. It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract and allusive with horror, and it's very forgiving to the author. You don't necessarily have to take an absolutely positive position. You can just write whatever.

George A. Romero

#8. I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it is horror science fiction. I can take ideas from modern theoretical science, manipulate them in truly bizarre and weird ways, and remain true to the Cthulhu Mythos vision.

David Conyers

#9. My goal is to know the Holy One and my divine self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. If you work in The Dark, you MUST live in The Light.

Mylo Carbia

#11. His rage fed my reckless euphoria. He couldn't stand having his authority challenged, and that made him easy to manipulate.

I was in chains, but he was losing control.

Rachel Vincent

#12. No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing.

Mylo Carbia

#13. They want to be stimulated. They want to read something that can get under their skin and hang out there for a while.

Alistair Cross

#14. Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.

Mason Cooley

#15. You Can't Replace A Star with A Lightbulb

Latif Mercado

#16. As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted.

Samuel Johnson

#17. My image is who I am, but not what I write.

Brian M.W.

#18. The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.

Mylo Carbia

#19. Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations. Deadlines are like a hot poker to his ass. They force us both to sit down and write, which is what it takes to do this.

Alistair Cross