Christopher Moore Quotes

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.

Long before punk entered my life, I loved scary films and stories.

I am not a scary movie/book kind of gal.

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.

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.

I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm,' I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

I was always a fan of horror films as a kid.

There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.

I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.

I've only seen a couple horror movies in my lifetime. I don't like the ones that make you scream out in terror.

I love ghost stories but kind of left them alone after my teens and came back to it after playing Heathcliff in 'Wuthering Heights' on the radio.

The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.

I'm a big fan of horror, personally.

I love watching horror films because I don't get scared easily.

'Baltimore' the series is inspired by all kinds of things, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Dracula.'

Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.

I kind of grew up on horror.

If you look to the few films that have been really successful, 'Insidious,' 'Paranormal Activity,' it's all basically the old monsters.

I've always been a fan of horror because I feel like it is one of the last genres where you need to see at a theatre, sharing in this profound experience of seeing it with a community of people.

There are very few horror films that I think are worth their salt.