Rick Riordan Quotes

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

The scariest part to any story is the sliver of truth you hide in the horror. Sometimes its not about the axe wielding murder, but the fact that he's lurking somewhere in your basement. Sure, you keep telling yourself that you'll replace the burnt out light every week.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material.

The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.

Monsters are evangelical creatures for me.

I've always been fascinated by horror.

Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Horror is the removal of masks.

Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

the beast is the monster that destroys your dream

Monsters,' her dad said, a tear tracing his cheek. 'I live in a world of monsters.

Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason.

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.

For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.