Robert Bloch Quotes

1917–1994 United States

Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror, and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television.

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Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

Psycho (1959)

That’s the way girls were—they always laughed. Because they were bitches.

Psycho (1959)

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

Psycho (1959)

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

Psycho (1959)

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Matheson gets closer to his characters than anyone else in the field of fantasy today. ... You don’t read a Matheson story — you experience it.

Magic—that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

Psycho (1959)

I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister.

Funny...how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.

Psycho (1959)

Horror is the removal of masks.

So I had this problem—work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Bloch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.