Seth Grahame-Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while.”

“But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.”

“If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don't have that body of work, I don't have that audience that's comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.”

“I understand exactly what I am.”

“I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.”

“I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award.”

“I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.”

“I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.”

“If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.”

“If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.”