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Richard Matheson

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Richard Matheson

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Notable quotes

“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.”
— Introduction to an Omnibus edition of his work, as quoted in Somewhere in Time (1998), p. 318 - 319
“My wife and child and I were on a camping trip and we stopped in Virginia City. In the Opera House, I saw a photograph of Maude Adams, the famous American actress. It was such a great photograph that creatively I fell in love with her. What if some guy did the same thing and could go back in time?”
— On his initial inspiration for the novel Bid Time Return (1975), as quoted in "Behind the Scenes of Somewhere in Time (1980)"
“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.”
— "Ed Gorman Calling: We Talk to Richard Matheson" (2004)
“I have come to the final judgment that I am not a man any longer. I am a figment, a concoction, an overblown invention born of low-grade whiskey and high-grade journalistic distortion; of street and saloon gossip and dime-novel bombast.”
— The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok (2009)
“I don’t know why I thought that would help but I called him. I’d have called anyone just to have another mind to help. Parents are useless beings when they’re afraid for their children.”
— Little Girl Lost (p. 169)
“George Romero filmed an homage to the book, and he called it Night of the Living Dead. Homage means I can make the picture and I don't have to pay you for your book. As a teen-ager I saw the movie "Dracula," and it occurred to me that if one vampire was scary, a whole world populated by vampires would be really scary.”
— On his novel I Am Legend, and the inspiration for it.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

On IJR

No public IJR answers mention Richard Matheson yet. As people ask about it and share their answers, they'll appear here.

Notable quotes

“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.”
— Introduction to an Omnibus edition of his work, as quoted in Somewhere in Time (1998), p. 318 - 319
“My wife and child and I were on a camping trip and we stopped in Virginia City. In the Opera House, I saw a photograph of Maude Adams, the famous American actress. It was such a great photograph that creatively I fell in love with her. What if some guy did the same thing and could go back in time?”
— On his initial inspiration for the novel Bid Time Return (1975), as quoted in "Behind the Scenes of Somewhere in Time (1980)"
“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.”
— "Ed Gorman Calling: We Talk to Richard Matheson" (2004)
“I have come to the final judgment that I am not a man any longer. I am a figment, a concoction, an overblown invention born of low-grade whiskey and high-grade journalistic distortion; of street and saloon gossip and dime-novel bombast.”
— The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok (2009)
“I don’t know why I thought that would help but I called him. I’d have called anyone just to have another mind to help. Parents are useless beings when they’re afraid for their children.”
— Little Girl Lost (p. 169)
“George Romero filmed an homage to the book, and he called it Night of the Living Dead. Homage means I can make the picture and I don't have to pay you for your book. As a teen-ager I saw the movie "Dracula," and it occurred to me that if one vampire was scary, a whole world populated by vampires would be really scary.”
— On his novel I Am Legend, and the inspiration for it.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.