Horror Stories Quotes

• I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like to write about the old standard where some rotten guy gets chased by a mean spirit that gets him in the end.I'd rather write about nice people that are menaced from outside by some sort of evil power and who sort of slug it out.

  Stephen King

  Strong, Nice, Believe

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.

  Fredric Brown

  Men, Doors, Earth

  "From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown".

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• I remember the horror story that I told myself over and over again. I'm totally alone in my body. I'm totally alone in my head and nobody will ever see through my eyes. I'm just completely alone.

  Sarah Silverman

  Eye, Body, Remember

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city. Horror stories you see. I tell you I didn't have to look far for material. Everywhere I looked, there were stories hidden there in the dark corners. . . . I wrote and still there were more. . . . No one would publish them. 'Too horrible,' they said. 'Sick mind,' they said. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city but the horror is too big and it goes on forever.

  Grant Morrison

  Writing, Dark, Cities

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• One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost two girlfriends and a job by reading an ingredients label out loud, with annotations, at the wrong time.

  Neal Stephenson

  Girlfriend, Jobs, Reading

  Neal Stephenson (2007). “Zodiac”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Adventure, True Life, Trials

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• You don't see heroism, humanity and hope like you do in a horror story. Horror celebrates the kind of friendship that keeps you standing shoulder to shoulder with someone even when the world is falling apart around you.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Fall, Humanity, World

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• It's cool to see everybody come together and do their own thing, but there's never been any drama. I never saw any on the X-Men set, and I never saw any on the Horror Story set.

  Evan Peters

  Drama, Men, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Easy, Bank Accounts, Asks

  "Deceptive Overdraft Fees: There Ought to Be a Law!" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.

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• While I don't like violent programs per se, I do like good storytelling, which made me a fan of shows like Breaking Bad and American Horror Story.

  Hank Stuever

  Fans, American Horror Story, Storytelling

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Writing, Ghost Stories, Way

  Interview with Tom Barbash, www.believermag.com.

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• When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and the weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism, and what I want to do is communicate that. But, because I come at this with a political perspective, the world that I'm creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have. But I never let them get in the way of the monsters.

  China Mieville

  Writing, Creating, Perspective

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me, they're so few and far between. I loved ghost stories, I love horror stories, I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me.

  Jane Goldman

  Ghost Stories, Missing, Balance

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Horror stories have always worked on film. It's where they work. That's where vampires and ghosts and UFOs are real. They're not particularly real in life, but they're real on the screen. It's the communal aspect of movie-watching.

  John Carpenter

  Real, Vampire, Ghost

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

  John Carpenter

  Danger, Reactions, Genre

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

  Ashley Johnson

  Children, Thinking, Acting

  AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. August 2011.

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• I am coming to the end of acting. I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one more season of American Horror Story. . . and then that is it for me. Because I think that's enough. I want to go out with a bang. . . or should I say, a scare?

  Jessica Lange

  Thinking, Two, Acting

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• A cowboy, a lawyer, and a mechanic watched Queen of the Damned,” I murmured. Warren—who had once, a long time ago, been a cowboy—snickered and wiggled his bare feet. “It could be the beginning of either a bad joke or a horror story.” “No,” said Kyle, the lawyer, whose head was propped up on my thigh. “If you want a horror story, you have to start out with a werewolf, his gorgeous lover, and a walker.

  Patricia Briggs

  Queens, Cowboy, Feet

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.641, Penguin

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• Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Errors, Identity, Special

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• And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not just girls. But the voices Joan heard were real. There’s clear and substantiated proof they were real.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Real, Men

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• …my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Book, Writing, One Day

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• And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not just girls. But the voices Joan heard were real. There’s clear and substantiated proof they were real. She won battles that would otherwise have been lost because of what those voices told her in advance of them allowing the French generals to strategize in ways completely different than they did before Joan came along. People’s lives were saved because of what those voices told her.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Real, Men

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• People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It was the worst day of my life. We didn't board for 20 minutes and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes.' Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly in the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight you non-contributing zero?'

  Louis C. K.

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Disappointment, Loneliness, Book

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Oct 27, 2014

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• I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.

  Lana Parrilla

  Revenge, Games, Watches

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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