Scary Books Quotes

#1. There was a lot of purple on the covers. Purple sold scary books better than any other color, Mike had been told.

Stephen King

#2. It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#3. My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

Alejandro Amenabar

#4. Money doesn't make you happy... but it sure doesn't make you said either!" - Nate Temple

Shayne Silvers

#5. Nothin's real scary except in books.

Harper Lee

#6. Any education that doesn't allow you to think freely is not an education but a prison.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell "Book" without "Boo!

Stephen Colbert

#8. I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.

Melissa De La Cruz

#9. How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?

Rufi Thorpe

#10. When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

R.L. Stine

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

Justin Alcala

#12. Besides, nothin's real scary except in books." Atticus

Harper Lee

#13. As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'

Jeffrey Skoll

#14. It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

Girolamo Savonarola

#15. I felt like I needed to comfort both the little girl inside me and my mother, assuring them that neither of them could have prevented the rape. I didn't want my mother to blame herself and I didn't want to blame the little girl inside of me for not speaking up at the age of six.

Erin Merryn

#16. Me & my fellow fairies are running away from a huge monster that keeps destroying our home land,sobbed Farina.
The monster is terribly scary,has huge jaws, creates clouds of smoke & makes loads of noise everywhere it goes.

Magda M. Olchawska

#17. Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. It's everything. (Confessions of a Scary Mommy, Gallery Books 2012).

Jill Smokler

#18. Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!

C.K. Webb

#19. If that is scary I really don't understand you, the idea is the lesson.

Deyth Banger

#20. Asked him and he said he wasn't. Besides, nothin's real scary except on books.

Harper Lee

#21. Keep eternity before the children.

Dallas Willard

#22. It's perfect. It's awesome. Every day is just filled with just wins. All we do is put wins in the record books. We win so radically in our underwear before our first cup of coffee, it's scary. People say it's lonely at the top, but I sure like the view.

Charlie Sheen

#23. We have a whole bunch of young people and a whole bunch of families. Are we going to disrupt these families and tear them apart? Or are we going think, like, listen - these people are here. We've got to deal with this reality. We've got to extend the franchise.

Junot Diaz

#24. Even thought you can't see it, my son, things are changing. Things ALWAYS change, given enough time and pressure. The very thought of that is scary to some, but change is absolutely nothing to be afraid of. It is a simple fact of life.

EXO Books

#25. Could a writer understand how her book had saved someone long ago, when the world was a fragile, scary place and the people she loved weren't in it anymore? Could a writer understand that her book had mattered more than anything?

Ann Hood

#26. I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.

Chris Van Allsburg

#27. I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.

R.L. Stine

#28. Be sure you're right-then go ahead.

David Crockett

#29. I'm going to consult some witches' books. Not that I have many here to consult. But I'm not going to Bryn's house. I've made it twelve whole days without sleeping with him, and no scary skeleton in a tree is going to send me to Seduction Central now that Bryn's big case is finally over.

Kimberly Frost

#30. The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

Thomas Jefferson

#31. There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution of any real, complex biochemical system either did occur or even might have occurred.

Michael Behe

#32. I saw a post the other day, where someone wrote that, when they walk through a library, they touch the spines of all the books they've read , as a way of greeting their favorite characters . . .

Try that with one of my novels, and you'll walk away counting your fingers!

Max Hawthorne