Horror Literature Quotes

#1. As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.

Victor LaValle

#2. From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Nadine Gordimer

#3. There is such malice, treachery, and dissimulation, even among professed friends and intimate companions, as cannot fail to strike a virtuous mind with horror; and when Vice quits the stage for a moment, her place is immediately occupied by Folly...

Tobias Smollett

#4. Conversion is the lifelong process of turning away from our plans and turning toward God's maddening, disruptive, creativity.

M. Craig Barnes

#5. I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

John Lahr

#6. In general, literature is a natural adversary of totalitarianism. Tyrannical governments all view literature in the same way: as their enemy. I lived for a long time in a totalitarian state, and I know firsthand that horror.

Ismail Kadare

#7. Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.

Roger Ebert

#8. The materials of genre - specifically the paired genres of horror and the fantastic - in no way require the constrictions of formulaic treatment, and in fact naturally extend and evolve into the methods and concerns of its wider context, general literature.

Peter Straub

#9. The moon shone upon his almost transparent hands, and Stephen saw that the nails were fearfully long and that the light shone through them.

M.R. James

#10. How impossible, though, to turn one's back on all the horrors in the world; there had to be another way to live.

Edan Lepucki

#11. To do it all and deprive others of doing is ... a misguided notion.

Jan Karon

#12. 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

#13. There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me

Joe Perry

#14. I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

Whitley Strieber

#15. I started appreciating and valuing different things. Some things just became insufferable to me, and not just literature. I used to like horror movies and now I couldn't stand them.

Aleksandar Hemon

#16. The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

John Ruskin

#17. The elevator doors opened to reveal a very large man brandishing a bloodstained antique phone receiver in a plastic bag and proclaiming, "I found this up him!"
"You know," said Tallow, "I really have no response to that.

Warren Ellis

#18. At this moment, each one of us is as close to God's throne of grace as we choose to be.

Joyce Meyer

#19. The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them.

Flannery O'Connor

#20. I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

Barbara Kruger

#21. You came to talk about the play," he said. "Let me discourage you. It was written to entertain people. Like horror movies. It isn't literature, it doesn't mean anything. Wharfinger was no Shakespeare." "Who was he?" she said. "Who was Shakespeare? It was a long time ago.

Thomas Pynchon