47 quotes
I've always considered myself an offbeat writer.
The New York Times interview (1994)
Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.
What Dreams May Come (1978)
I hate it when something I’ve had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I’ve written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.
Ed Gorman Calling: We Talk to Richard Matheson (2004)
It is a secret but I have pulled the chain out of the wall. I can see out the little window all I like.
Born of Man and Woman (1950)
I will try to be consistent, no longer oscillating like some planet that has lost its way. For, at long last, I have found my sun.
Bid Time Return (1978)
Sometimes he had indulged in daydreams about finding someone. More often, though, he had tried to adjust to what he sincerely believed was the inevitable — that he was actually the only one left in the world. At least in as much of the world as he could ever hope to know.
I Am Legend (1954)
This day father hit in the chain again before it had light. I have to try to pull it out again. He said I was bad to come upstairs. He said never do that again or he would beat me hard. That hurts.
Born of Man and Woman (1950)
Life is a risk; so is writing. You have to love it.
The New York Times interview (1994)
I've been very fortunate throughout my career.
The New York Times interview (1994)
As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.
What Dreams May Come (1978)
I have come to the final judgment that I am not a man any longer. I am a figment, a concoction, an overblown invention born of low-grade whiskey and high-grade journalistic distortion; of street and saloon gossip and dime-novel bombast.
The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok (2009)
I thought what father said. Oh god he said. And only eight.
Born of Man and Woman (1950)
The world’s gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it.
The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it.
I Am Legend (1954)
All through the years, I've had many interests.
The New York Times interview (1994)
They were exciting times that bubbled over with energy for all those involved.
The New York Times interview (1994)
I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed.
Bid Time Return (1978)
I think we’re yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you that I don’t believe in the "supernatural," I believe in the "supernormal." To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it’s because we haven’t been able to understand it yet.
To the human eye, stars move very slowly. Considering their relative motion, at this moment she and I might be looking up at virtually the same sight.
She in 1896, me in 1971.
Bid Time Return (1978)
Maurice Nicoll says all history is a living today. We are not enjoying one spark of life in a huge, dead waste. We are, instead, existing at one point "in a vast process of the living who still think and feel but are invisible to us."
Bid Time Return (1978)
Well, why not? My dream woman has always been unavailable to me. What difference does a mere three-quarters of a century make?
Bid Time Return (1978)