Naomi Alderman Quotes

The unknown is always frightening.

The unknown is very scary.

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.

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.

People are scared of the unknown.

The unknown is always scary.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

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.

What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me.

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

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.

People are afraid of what they don't know.

I don't know what frightens me more

There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.

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.

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.

I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

You can be afraid of a lot of things that you don't understand.

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