Anne Enright Quotes

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.

Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.

We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known.

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

Horror isn't only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis of horror. Once you have a sexy, fun vampire who is sweet, and you have a happy ending, it's not horror.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.

The scariest part to any story is the sliver of truth you hide in the horror. Sometimes its not about the axe wielding murder, but the fact that he's lurking somewhere in your basement. Sure, you keep telling yourself that you'll replace the burnt out light every week.

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right.

True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.

My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

I think suspense is a big thing.

As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.

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

I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when we're hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.