Quotes from James Herbert

The fact of the matter is, the more power you have, the easier it is to find solutions to any problems. You merely surround yourself with the right people, the right brains – they come up with the answers and you take the glory.

towards them. The other two froze and did the same. Harris would never forget the horror he felt under the gaze of the three pairs of sharp, wicked-looking eyes. It wasn't

Reborn.    I screamed and the scream woke me.    My head felt as if it would explode with the new knowledge. I wasn't a dog; I was a man . I had existed before as a man and somehow I had become trapped inside an animal's body. A dog's body. How? And why?

I moved fast and had Victoria's head between my jaws before she had a chance to dodge. We spun around in the kitchen, the mouse's head in the cat's mouth, and the cat's head in mine.

My emotions were fast becoming those of a dog, as though, now my search was over, a ghost had been vanquished. The ghost was my humanness. I felt free, free as any bird in the sky. Free to live as a dog. I ran for nearly a day and, when I finally dropped, the last remnants of my old self had been purged.

We can't exist and then not-exist, otherwise all we do or try to do would be so pointless.

When Harry had held it, it had shat in his hand.

Rivers had assumed this person was a fantasy, someone the twins had merely dreamt about or invented, but no, Josh had insisted he was real-real and living in Scotland.

Why anyone should do so, knowing full well the dangers, was beyond the soldiers' comprehension, but they had learned from past experience never to underestimate the imbecility of certain individuals on occasions like these.

It was soon plain to the climatologist that his host's knowledge of the global crisis was wider ranging: Poggs had conducted detailed studies of every disaster.

You take the drugs to escape your own reality, but in the comedowns the reality only becomes more depressing, and the stronger the substance, the harsher the aftermath.

Judy was in the bath, enjoying its cocoon warmth

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.

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

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

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