Scary Story Quotes

#1. The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.

Robert Duncan McNeill

#2. Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.

Robert Englund

#3. That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we've grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.

Karen Thompson Walker

#5. It's my time to scare you, it's time for scary story.

Deyth Banger

#6. There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#7. Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#8. The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.

Stephen Sommers

#9. It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

David Letterman

#10. Evil is an adjective. It is an adjective used to describe those actions of man (and their effects) that are contrary to the nature of God.

N.D. Wilson

#11. I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.

Elif Safak

#12. The lake's deep...and dark...and dangerous.

Mary Downing Hahn

#13. No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.

Nick Harkaway

#14. I have to say my favorite stories are ghost stories. I don't like to see these made-up monster films or scary films with ghosts. It doesn't do anything to me. But a real ghost story that someone tells me, that I like.

Sandra Cisneros

#15. I've had some offers from furries - people that want to have sex with dudes in furry suits. I've had some interesting requests. There's some great fans.

Jason Gann

#16. In every take, that you're not sure of what they're going to cut and paste together and what the arc or the purpose or the intention of your character's journey will be in the story. You don't have control. Sometimes that's wonderful, and sometimes that can be scary.

Shannyn Sossamon

#17. We were men once, though we've become trees

Dante Alighieri

#18. Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us how it will turn out in the end.

Bo Lozoff

#19. I love scary movies. I like American Horror Story. That is more of a series, but it is really good.

Daniel Jacobs

#20. I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

John McLaughlin

#21. The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.

Criss Jami

#22. As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

Rod Serling

#23. No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD.

John Raptor

#24. If he wants breakfast in bed, tell him to sleep in the kitchen.

Kathy Lette

#25. I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.

David Naughton

#26. It's always scary making a film as I never set anything up or ask anyone to do anything, so I worry that we'll find a story. I have to trust that a film will come out of the journey we embark on. I have many, many sleepless nights.

Kim Longinotto

#27. When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.

David Gerrold

#28. When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

Brian Eno

#29. We ask our brain to stop worrying, stop obsessing, stop dreaming the same scary dreams again and again. But our brain rarely takes requests.

Dan Poblocki

#30. Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#31. Yes, it was scary, but every time I got a frisson of fear I tried to remember what Frank Quinn was always telling me. "Susan, believe in yourself. You are the person writing your story.

Susan Boyle

#32. Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce.

Philip Johnson

#33. Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

Leslie Lamport

#34. His head seems to bulge with the story; it is a little scary, the way it needs to get out. He feels that if it cannot escape by way of his racing hand that it will pop his eyes out in its urgency to escape and be concrete.

Stephen King

#35. Given that I don't know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one?

Sharon Weil

#36. I changed his name after I saw this old movie at the Snark. It's called Nosferatu, and it's the original Dracula story. It's ten times as scary as the version you see on television. The guy who plays the vampire is really bizarre.

Daniel Pinkwater

#37. Immensely clever story, and quite creepy, in a delightfully scary way.

Mark Z. Danielewski