Nancy Gibbs Quotes

I had dreams of being chased by a creature down an alleyway on a regular basis. I'd have dreams of being ripped apart.

Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie 'Arachnophobia,' which was single-handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life.

I've had a quite a few nightmares about being chased by walkers.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

Panic is a horrible thing.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history

When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape - I remember it all.

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.

Anytime you're in fear for your life, it's intense.

My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.

In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.

His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to him—bash his head with clubs, or stab him with spears, or… …or tap him on the shoulder.

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

I can scare myself like a pro.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

I shudder at the image they would piece together.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.