Michelle Dean Quotes

The end of 'Hollow City' left the peculiar children in a very precarious spot, and that's just where 'Library of Souls' begins.

I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, you know. 'I don't usually read this kind of stuff, but.'

With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get.

The one thing that's always very safe to say with 'Arrow' is never make assumptions.

'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.

Normally, in a film with lots of twists and turns, half of them don't make sense; they're just there for their own sakes.

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

I have a plot, but not much happens.

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

I wouldn't exactly describe 'Detention' as a horror movie. I mean, it does have horror elements in it, but it's got a lot more to it, and it's not a typical horror movie.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.

I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.

If you were writing a short ghost story, I would say start very quietly and go, 'One, two, three jump.' Or start with a jump and make it jumpier. But with a long story, it must have rises and falls.

The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on.

Eventually, while researching, you'll learn something you didn't want to know. Some fact that ruins a plotline you had in mind. The good news is that sometimes, learning all the facts can make for a much more interesting story than you originally had in mind.

I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.

A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.

In 'Crush,' it still has a lot of elements of other genres, and then the horror is layered on top of it, especially towards the end.

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

I like horror movies that have a degree of coziness to them.