Horror Book Review Quotes

#1. Horror. I can't manage it. I become
well
horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect.
When asked, "Any literary genre you simply can't be bothered with?" - (By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the NYT Book Review, by Pamela Paul)

Emma Thompson

#2. Resilience, by its nature, energizes and motivates you and the people around you. Having this internal balance improves your ability to think more clearly, problem solve and make better decisions.

Cynthia Howard

#3. Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

John Calvin

#4. There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.

Fran Lebowitz

#5. A woman carries her inner life - lugs it around or holds it in like fumes that both poison and bless her - while nourishing another's inner life, many others actually, while never revealing too much madness, or, possibly, never revealing where she stores it: her island of lost mind.

Durga Chew-Bose

#6. Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.

Zack Wamp

#7. Behind him now. He had looked at the very real possibility of his own death again and again had found

Stephen King

#8. I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

Edward VII

#9. If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.

Pablo Picasso

#10. I eat quite healthily normally but, like everyone, have relapses and give in to the odd cake.

Denise Van Outen

#11. There's a star in the sky that refuses to stay put, and Hadley realizes it's actually a plane, that just last night, that star was them.

Jennifer E. Smith

#12. Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.

Terry Pratchett

#13. A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in pursuit of some higher purpose. It doesn't mean they are utterly insincere.

Robert Dallek

#14. What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

Janet Burroway

#15. The common soldiers did not blame him for his excessive grief. They knew him. They knew his flaws. Indeed, I think they loved him all the more because he was flawed, as they were, and did not hide his passionate, blemished nature.

Geraldine Brooks