"I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me."

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Source : "James Herbert on his daily routine, writing The Rats and how he hates violence". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 12, 2012.

James Herbert

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“I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.”
“Workplaces need to respond to the reality of family life in the 21st century, and allowing employees to have seven sick days a year is a bare minimum, the fact that the United States is one of just a handful of countries that does not require paid family or sick leave is nothing short of shameful.”
“Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.”
“My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.”
“Can you really forgive if you can't forget?”
“For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.”
“If you want to go on the floor, go in disguise because otherwise you won't be able to. I would just put on a full Darth Vader costume and walk through Comic-Con so I can actually check it out and enjoy it as opposed to being approached by everyone, which is lovely, but it gets very difficult to enjoy because there's so many people there.”

Source : "Comic-Con 2011: 'The Big Bang Theory's' Kunal Nayyar (Q&A)" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 06, 2011.
“Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.”

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