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Quotes About Horror

As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.
~ Corey Feldman
I wanted to write something that reflected the violence and horror of the world, but I also wanted to reflect the way people fight to survive, even when society wants to crush them.
~ Sabaa Tahir
Before I start, I search the internet for hours looking for inspiration - I look at horror movies, special effects, everything. Then, I take a bunch of screenshots, and pile them together in Photoshop to create a story for myself. I plan it out in my head, but I don't ever practice beforehand.
~ NikkieTutorials
I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, you know. 'I don't usually read this kind of stuff, but.'
~ Tananarive Due
'Fall Of A City' aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city and family by the horrors of siege.
~ David Farr
Watching me, judging me, smelling the crippling failure oozing from my skin, my desperation clawing and all-consuming panic drenching me as I gape in horror at the world and wonder why everyone is smiling and looking at me with secret knowledge of my aching shame.
~ Sarah Kane
A horror so deep only ritual can contain it.
~ Sarah Kane
Built to be lonely to love the absent. Find me Free me from this corrosive doubt futile despair horror in repose. I can fill my space fill my time but nothing can fill this void in my heart.
~ Sarah Kane
Some things are so horrible they need to be hidden right after they become visible. They are too horrible to be seen except very slowly, or in very small amounts. Or they are too beautiful.
~ Sarah Manguso
Worry is impatience for the next horror.
~ Sarah Manguso
Horror is terror that stayed the night.
~ Sarah Manguso
Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' " is one of the scariest stories I have ever read,
~ Sarah Monette
I had been addicted to phoenix six years ago, just as I had been addicted to Malkar. I had beaten the addiction and not taken phoenix since. I was horrified by how comforting the taste was. I had known people in Pharaohlight, who had insisted that phoenix was tasteless, but they were wrong. It tasted like tears.
~ Sarah Monette
Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don't you?
~ Sarah Waters
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
~ Sarah Zettel
Only in homeopathy do you get specific remedies for people who believe they are made of glass, have a delusion that they are selling green vegetables, or have an aptitude for, or a horror of, mathematics.
~ Scarlett Thomas
Have you ever seen somebody die? It's not like in the movies, not to me. You don't close their peaceful eyes and pray for their soul. Rather their eyes are full of horror. People say taken in the flower of their youth, how sad yet these people get to escape a lifetime of hell and still people mourn. I laugh in honor of the dead. may they rot in peace.
~ Scott C. Holstad
Horror is the result of sin. Sin gives way to temptation. Temptation is the number-one weapon of the Devil.
~ Scott Thomas
This is perhaps the most important element of any good Gothic horror story. Without it, what do you have? A shitty old dump with a dark history no one remembers or cares about. You need that one person who ensures that the evil lives on.
~ Scott Thomas
I've always been a huge fan of 'The Shining,' and 'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my favorite films of all time.
~ Mary Elizabeth Winstead
In my own personal time, horror films freak me out too much, so I tend to steer clear of watching horror films on my own.
~ Aimee Teegarden
Any time a new horror film comes out that looks appealing, I'm always excited to go see it.
~ Alexandra Breckenridge
Horror movies, man, the blood entails so much time. And horror movies are not fun; definitely not starting there as a director. Definitely not horror.
~ Corey Haim
I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though most of the time the supernatural never actually appears on stage.
~ Dan Chaon