Dave Barry Quotes

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

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.

True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

I can scare myself like a pro.

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.

I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

I just don't like getting scared, like when people hide and jump out of places. That totally freaks me out. I'm not a fan of it.

There's so much to be afraid of.

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.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

I feel happy to terrify kids.

I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve.

Even the sheep are afraid of me.

Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.

Imprint' was definitely the scariest project that I've worked on.

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