Iain Rob Wright > Quotes

“the difference between the living and the dead.  The living run away when you shoot at them.”
― Iain Rob Wright, Savage

“People are afraid, Mina. And when people are afraid, their inner cavemen come out. There’s no rationality in a man when he panics. Just keep your head down and don’t stop moving.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Gates

“If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.” – Scott Caan”
― Iain Rob Wright, Savage

“Mum will kill me if I get murdered and chopped up.”
― Iain Rob Wright, Escape!

“She wore Sin around her shoulders like a comfortable cloak and felt cold without it.”
― Iain Rob Wright, Sam

“There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.” – Joss Whedon”
― Iain Rob Wright, M is for Matty-Bob

“The problem is that you have the moral compass of a brain damaged Hitler.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Housemates

“I always say that religion and politics are just clever ways to make discontent people content with their discontentedness.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Final Winter

“We need help.” Blake shook his head in desperation. “From where?” Stevie shrugged. “Google?”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Picture Frame

“A church makes no more or less of a man; it is his mind and his actions that interest the Lord.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Picture Frame

“Ooh, that sounds great. Better than that book you wrote about those vampires chatting up a bunch of schoolgirls.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Picture Frame

“We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.” Joel C. Rosenberg”
― Iain Rob Wright, Ravage

“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” - Mohandas Gandhi”
― Iain Rob Wright, Animal Kingdom

“Great! Frikkin' space zombies. Are you kidding me?”
― Iain Rob Wright, 2389

“Readers wanted to fall in love with an author’s library, knowing that there would be more to come. Reader and author could be a lifelong love affair and, like a marriage, it needed tending to.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Picture Frame

“People treat reading like a taboo – television’s uncool relation.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Final Winter

“My husband is a man who watches cartoons with his son; whose favourite show is Nashville; and who cried when Buffy’s mum died.”
― Iain Rob Wright, M is for Matty-Bob

“Mankind’s relentless efforts to exceed itself would one day bring about its ruin, she was sure of it. The closer they came to being gods, the closer they came to extinction.”
― Iain Rob Wright, 2389

“You know... clowns can get away with murder!" — John Wayne Gacy”
― Iain Rob Wright, C is for Clown

“Drugs make people so screwed up that they laugh at their own murder.”
― Iain Rob Wright, Sea Sick

“If you were a character in one of my books, I could cut you without changing the plot in the slightest.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Picture Frame

“A book was to be held and enjoyed, breathed in like a natural, beautiful thing. It was a flower to be inhaled by the mind.”
― Iain Rob Wright, A-Z of Horror: Complete Collection

“Not to mention the company I work for has just been murdered.”
― Iain Rob Wright, Escape!

“I pushed aside all thoughts of my family just so I could keep going, but it was like trying to hold back the sea. Try as I might, the waves kept crashing down on my head and swallowing me up. Eventually, when I had all but drowned, I realised that by pushing the memory of my family away, I was slowly erasing them. It was the last thing I wanted, so I made a change. When I accepted my pain instead of trying to block it out, and I allowed myself to remember their faces, my family returned to me. I’ve been carrying them with me ever since.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Road

“Age is a funny thing. Gets to a point where the past is unbelievably long and the future terrifyingly small.”
― Iain Rob Wright, Witch

“God was mysterious. God was great. But God was not Good.”
― Iain Rob Wright, Sam

“Mistakes belong in the past, young lady. Every tomorrow is a blank slate and a chance to start again, so don't cheat yourself by believing that you're stuck.”
― Iain Rob Wright, Zombie

“Adults are supposed to look after children, not hurt them. Children are supposed to play and learn and never worry about anything.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Ultimate Horror Boxset

“I've always found it smart to assume the worst will happen and then be prepared for it to be even shittier.”
― Iain Rob Wright, 2389

“We’ve put ourselves in cages, but all people need to do is say no and the system will change. No, I will not slave away so my boss can buy a bigger boat. No, I won’t pay tax to a government that squanders it on wars and corporate subsidies. No, I won’t pay a fine for public indecency after drinking an intoxicating substance that you freely sold to me for profit, knowing full well the damage it causes.”
― Iain Rob Wright, Ghosts