Richard Matheson quotes

Richard Matheson was an American author and screenwriter, best known for his work in science fiction, horror, and fantasy. His novels and stories, such as "I Am Legend" and "The Shrinking Man," have influenced multiple generations of writers and filmmakers. He became renowned for blending psychological depth with speculative elements in his works. Here are 71 of his quotes:

All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.

Richard Matheson

I can get pissed off very easily.

Richard Matheson

Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time, What Dreams May Come is the story of a love which transcends death. ... I feel that they represent the best writing I have done in the novel form.

Richard Matheson

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.

Richard Matheson

I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death - the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.

Richard Matheson

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

Richard Matheson

How long did it take for a past to die?

Richard Matheson

I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

Richard Matheson

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.

Richard Matheson

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

Richard Matheson

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

Richard Matheson

If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease... Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.

Richard Matheson

Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn't. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.

Richard Matheson

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.

Richard Matheson

There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.

Richard Matheson

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn't it?

Richard Matheson

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

Richard Matheson

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

Richard Matheson

A man could get used to anything if he had to.

Richard Matheson

When I first joined my local library, I read endlessly. I immediately headed for the fantasy section, fairy tales, you name it. As a teen-ager, I read every novel by Kenneth Roberts, who wrote historical novels about the Revolutionary War period. My mother used to read to me. Heidi was one of my childhood favorites.

Richard Matheson

It is a secret but I have pulled the chain out of the wall. I can see out the little window all I like.

Richard Matheson

Life is a risk; so is writing. You have to love it.

Richard Matheson