Lauren Oliver Quotes

I've always wanted to do a horror movie, and I grew up watching a lot of horror. I now, recently in life, don't have the stomach for it because I spend so much time in it.

Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

On a deeper level, I think many stories - especially thrillers - can be a journey to the heart of darkness.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

I have always been a dark writer.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Clearly I'm really attracted to parts where there's a dark, sinister feel about them!

I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.

I once tried to figure out the first time I felt guilt, and it goes so far back that I might have been an inch long at the time.

People don't call them horror movies, but Hitchcock, for me, is my favorite storyteller. He was really exploring dark themes, and I don't know what category you put his movies in. Thriller? Horror? Some of them go in either one.

I loved anything spooky, mysterious, or frightening.

Horror itself is such a magical genre.

I can't imagine making something that is made only to be scary. For me, the darkness and scary material has to have meaning attached to it, or I can't invest the time and energy it takes to write and script or make a movie. It has to mean something.

There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it.

I've always been fascinated by horror.

I want folks to take horror seriously.

I have a long, complicated history with horror.

In my own personal time, horror films freak me out too much, so I tend to steer clear of watching horror films on my own.

My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.

Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!

Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all the words he has spoken, all the values he had held-- all of it coalesced into one solid, thick pillar in his heart, the core of which was spinning like a potter's wheel. Wordlessly, Tengo observed the scene, as if watching the destruction and rebirth of a planet.

Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.

Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?

It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.