Tananarive Due Quotes

I guess the reason that I'm a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling of being scared in a safe environment. I think that's why, for all of human history, we've been telling each other scary stories: because it exorcises something that we need to exorcise in a safe place.

I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.

Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not everyone - it's sort of the cinema anchovies. You either like it or you don't.

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.

The horror genre is real cathartic. It allows us to bring out the things that scare us and get it out and have an emotional release.

Oh, gosh, I have always been a huge fan of horror since I was a child. I know this is going to sound really weird, but I think it started with fairy tales.

Horror movies, man, the blood entails so much time. And horror movies are not fun; definitely not starting there as a director. Definitely not horror.

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.

I grew up on genre. If it had a dragon on the cover, I was interested. But horror, especially, really gripped me in its bony fist.

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

I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.

I'm not necessarily a horror fan. I just never really watched them that much.

I just love scary stuff! I'm a huge horror buff.

Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.

I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of scary movies.

Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.

For me, horror movies are a real escape.

The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.