Terry Hayes Quotes

Everybody has a dark side. It's just we are very in touch with it.

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

I think we all have a little dark side we keep under wraps.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mind of a 'bad man.' It was fun.

I don't mind telling a dark side.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

Quest stories are about the oldest form of narrative there is, and they're also the perfect metaphor for life because we're all on a journey trying to figure out where we're going and who we are. 'Solomon Creed' is just doing it with more danger and guns involved.

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like the heart of darkness. And everybody has got one. When I was reading it, I couldn't put it down, and I wanted to know what was going to happen next.

My favorite Swamp Thing stories have always been about a man wrestling with monsters both internal and external.

I go wherever the good story is.

Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is explore. I want to see what people would do. I say, 'What would this person do in this situation?' and I write it down. I'm not writing manifestos of my political views.

I have always connected to stories with characters that don't fit in and have a constant internal battle between their better nature and the darkness within.

Human darkness fascinates me; I find it intriguing. And there are few female characters who are explored in this light.

Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.

When I'm on an adventure, I live with a camera in my hand, and that's what I try to give to the readers inside the space that gives us every chapter of the story.

I love writing thrillers.

If it's present in the life of the character, I'll write about it. Kitchen, bedroom, church, I'll follow a character wherever they go.

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

I just like stories in which characters are struggling with something, whether it's an external force like in 'Vanishing,' or in 'Session 9,' where it's more of a monster within the mind.