Robert Bloch Quotes


So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.


Citations

Bloch, Robert. Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography. Tor Books, 1993, p. 25.

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Robert Bloch
Robert Bloch
  • Born: April 5, 1917
  • Died: September 23, 1994
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Short-story Writer

Robert Albert Bloch was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known as the writer of Psycho (1959), the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock. His fondness for a pun is evident in the titles of his story collections such as Tales in a Jugular Vein, Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of and Out of the Mouths of Graves.