Quotes About Horror Novels

#1. Even in horror novels where you know most characters aren't going to make it to the end, it's crucial to have fully fleshed-out characters. If you don't do that, the reader doesn't care what happens to them.

Kelley Armstrong

#2. I'd love for readers to read what books are about so that if they are expecting happy endings in dark horror novels, they won't reach for the Vallium or something worse!

Carole Gill

#3. The best horror novels open up, It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air.

Justin Alcala

#4. Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

Colson Whitehead

#5. I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Sarah Pinborough

#6. For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.

Annie Oakley

#7. I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger.

James Rollins

#8. I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.

Henri Matisse

#9. If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

G.K. Chesterton

#10. I would rather ride on the far distant coattails of established authors than to follow the inexperienced whose whims change with the direction of the wind.

Peggy Randall-Martin

#11. If I can keep writing just one good page a day, I will have 15 published novels in my expected lifetime. Tick, tick, tick...

Barry James Hickey

#12. I learned that courage and fear always come as a pair. If you've gone one inside you, you've surely got the other.

Natalie Lloyd

#13. Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often of a startling nature, for very diverse fields of effort.

Carl Rogers

#14. When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.

Kristin Armstrong

#15. I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.

Nicholas Sparks

#16. Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#17. I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell
and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.

Bentley Little

#18. Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.

Michael Koryta

#19. Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and make them revolting.

Neil Gaiman

#20. When you can wake up in the morning and feel successful whether some end goal is realized or not ... THAT is true success.

Simon Sinek

#21. 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

#22. Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve.

James Dashner

#23. I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Jack Welch

#24. When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

Dorothy Allison

#25. I think you'd melt like sugar on my tongue. What do you think?" She laughed a little, holding on to my shoulders. "I think I'm melting now." "I think you are. I think you're going to melt all over my fucking hand and I'll lick it off after. Are you loud, little Plum? When you come are you wild?

Christina Lauren

#26. Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

Benjamin Franklin

#27. It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

Heather Mills