Horror 101 Quotes

“Fiction should always challenge what you believe in, and make you think hard about what it is to be a human being.”
― Joe Mynhardt, Horror 101: The Way Forward: Career advice by seasoned professionals

“Reality is strange, exhilarating, and tragic. Sometimes reality is well beyond our understanding.”
― Joe Mynhardt, Horror 101: The Way Forward: Career advice by seasoned professionals

“you can’t empathize, if you can’t or aren’t willing to put yourself into someone else’s place with all the compassion and insight you can muster—to find their character through your own character—you have no business calling yourself a fiction writer.”
― Joe Mynhardt, Horror 101: The Way Forward: Career advice by seasoned professionals

“Write horror. Don’t let ANYONE ELSE tell you how to conduct your muse. They’re all sour-grapes, wannabe, no-talent bums who WISH they had your skill and motivation. So go forth, my son, and write HORROR.”
― Joe Mynhardt, Horror 101: The Way Forward: Career advice by seasoned professionals

“horror MUST stimulate the reader’s mental pressure points more effectively and more consistently than other genres.”
― Joe Mynhardt, Horror 101: The Way Forward: Career advice by seasoned professionals

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” —Jack London”
― Joe Mynhardt, Horror 101: The Way Forward: Career advice by seasoned professionals

“The horror equivalent of the Hero’s Journey: some Poor Bastard’s Descent into Hell.”
― Joe Mynhardt, Horror 101: The Way Forward: Career advice by seasoned professionals