James Herbert Quotes

#1. I'm quite interested in adapting some of James Herbert's early work. 'The Dark' ... But I was always desperate to do an adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' until the Beard stole it from underneath my feet.

Neil Marshall

#2. I wandered among the monuments - blank monuments, monuments in memory of nothing so far.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Terror was the key, of course, for there's a fine line between paralyzing dread and galvanizing fright.

James Herbert

#4. I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

James Herbert

#5. What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

Hans Blix

#6. I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

James Herbert

#7. Now get out in that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans

James Herbert

#8. Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. His indirect way of approaching a character or an action, striving to realize it by surrounding rather than invading it, is ideally suited to the indefinite and suggestive presentation of a ghost story.
(introduction to "Sir Edmund Orme" by Henry James)

Herbert A. Wise

#10. If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or devastating - what a live-action performance does.

Andy Serkis

#11. I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

James Herbert

#12. To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.

James Herbert

#13. For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.

James Herbert

#14. Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me and pushes me through.

Jess Walter

#15. I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

James Herbert

#16. Between twenty and thirty I gradually became more and more agnostic and irreligious, yet I cannot say that I ever lost that 'indefinite consciousness' which Herbert Spencer describes so well, of an Absolute Reality behind phenomena.

William James

#17. He died. And waited.

James Herbert

#18. Drip, drip, the rain comes falling, Rain in the woods, rain on the sea; Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling As if to find shelter here with me.

James Herbert

#19. I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.

James Herbert

#20. I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.

James Herbert

#21. Was there a store somewhere full of unwanted secrets?

Kate Atkinson

#22. I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.

James Herbert

#23. Ireland is but an island off the coast of Cape Clear.

Chuck Kruger

#24. It's just misery to try to keep count of what God is no longer counting.

Robert Farrar Capon

#25. I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

James Herbert

#26. I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

James Herbert

#27. Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

James Herbert

#28. Then, when people saw you strolling around at high noon holding your rosary beads, they'd think, 'Well, that can't be a vampire.

Jeaniene Frost

#29. Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.

Marya Hornbacher

#30. I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love.

James Herbert

#31. I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.

James Herbert

#32. I shuffled to the back. 'You there - new girl. I can't see you.' Precisely: that had been the idea.

Joss Stirling

#33. Carol was like a secret spreading through her.

Highsmith, Patricia

#34. Sidney remembered how strikingly original the poem was. For George Herbert, the time we spend on earth is not all too brief and transient but too long: because it detains human beings from a life outside time and with God.

James Runcie

#35. I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.

Kerry King