F. Paul Wilson Quotes

I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.

Horror is a part of science fiction. It belongs in the definition of sci-fi.

I've been writing since 1973. I've written nonfiction things of that nature, but I'm probably best known for crime fiction and, to some extent, horror fiction.

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.

I'm a big Stephen King fan.

One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.

I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

My parents are both huge science-fiction and fantasy fans - I was fed it.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

I'm a huge sci-fi/fantasy/horror guy. I love anything in the sci-fi or fantasy genre.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.

I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.

I'm a very promiscuous reader. My dad's a big science fiction fan, so I'd read 'Dune,' and 'Watership Down' and 'The Lord Of The Rings.'

I love science fiction, and one of the things I love about it is that it's so very different. You can read stuff that's just fast-paced adventure, and the characters are cardboard, but who cares, because they're heroes, and we love it. And you can read stuff that's really deep character, and everything in between.

I love horror, mystery, and science fiction, and Poe was one of the founding fathers of those worlds.

As far as fiction goes, as far as everything from Dr. Seuss to Oscar Wilde to Bret Easton Ellis. Ray Bradbury. There's just tons of stuff that I love. Neil Gaiman!

There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.