Linda Sue Park Quotes

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Fear is one of those really primal emotions which you don't want to have incredibly exciting modulations and complex harmonies and all that kind of stuff.

Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.

There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.

Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you're not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

I can scare myself like a pro.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Well, I need to be frightened on a regular basis.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

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.

People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

I am a big scaredy-cat; horror films terrify me.

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Fear has been good to yours truly.

I get a little scared sometimes. A lot of things scare me.

There's so much to be afraid of.

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

Few things focus the mind like fear.