James Herbert quotes
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“To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.”
-- James HerbertSource : James Herbert (2011). “Haunted”, p.11, Pan Macmillan
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“I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.”
-- James HerbertSource : "Cultureshock: Novelist James Herbert and daughter Casey exchange experiences". www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2006.
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“I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.”
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“I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.”
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“I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.”
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“I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.”
-- James HerbertSource : "From the archive: James Herbert on rats and redemption". Interview with Andrew Billen, www.theguardian.com. 1993.
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“I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love.”
-- James HerbertSource : "From the archive: James Herbert on rats and redemption". Interview with Andrew Billen, www.theguardian.com. 1993.
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“I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.”
-- James HerbertSource : "From the archive: James Herbert on rats and redemption". Interview with Andrew Billen, www.theguardian.com. 1993.
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“I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.”
-- James HerbertSource : "James Herbert on his daily routine, writing The Rats and how he hates violence". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 12, 2012.
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“For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.”
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“I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.”
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“Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.”
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“Drip, drip, the rain comes falling, Rain in the woods, rain on the sea; Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling As if to find shelter here with me.”
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“I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.”
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“I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.”
-- James Herbert
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