Skip to content

William Peter Blatty Quotes

1928–2017 United States

William Peter Blatty (7 January 1928 – 12 January 2017) was an American writer and filmmaker. The Exorcist (1971) is his best-known novel; he also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation, for which he won an Academy Award, and wrote and directed the sequel The Exorcist III.

United States
Film directors
Film producers
Novelists
Screenwriters

Random William Peter Blatty quote

2 quotes

And yet even from this — from evil — there will finally come good in some way; in some way that we may never understand or even see. … Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness … And perhaps even Satan — Satan, in spite of himself — somehow serves to work out the will of God.

The Exorcist (1971)

Being a Catholic, I believe that we all have a foot in two worlds. The one that we’re conscious of is in time, but now and then a freak like me gets a flash from the other foot, and that one, I think, is in eternity, where time does not exist and so the future and the past are both the present. So now and again when I’m feeling a tingling in that other foot, I believe that I’m seeing the future.

The Exorcist (1971)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Peter Blatty (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.