R. Alistair Quotes

She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.

I think horror, when done well, is one of the most direct and honest ways to get to the core of the human experience because terror reduces all of us to our most authentic forms.

The odd was the ordinary at Alistair Grim's. The people who lived there were odd. The things they did there were odd. Even the there itself there was odd.

For every quote, there is one that challenges it.

They want to be stimulated. They want to read something that can get under their skin and hang out there for a while.

Self-confidence is usually little more than wishful thinking in a thigh-high pair of Come F*ck Me boots.

Any writer of horror needs to at least have a good, solid love of the genre. Also, good horror writers need to have a slightly twisted sense of humor. Without humor, horror just isn’t as good.

Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. It's so hard to tell you're a mile away by the Luke in your eye.

Every sport pretends to be literature. . .

Following 9/11, intelligence indicated numerous links between al-Qa'eda and Algeria. It began to look as though the roots of jihad could be traced back to the war in Algeria that began 50 years ago.

I'm just cruising, doing me, having a good time and focusing on getting better.

When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.

It's better to train for 4-5 hours a week than to do ten hours one week then nothing for two weeks. It helps your body adapt and also maintains your fitness.