Robert Bloch
Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Blochwas an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock. His fondness for a pun is evident in the titles of his story collections such as Tales in a Jugular Vein, Such Stuff as Screams Are Made Of and Out of the Mouths of Graves...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 April 1917
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Horror is the removal of masks.
I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.
Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.
Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one, fulfills a function. Drive it into a crucial place and you can depend on it to do a job, keep on doing it for a hundred years to come. Long after we're dead and gone, both of us.
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a small child - I keep it in a jar on my desk.
That's the way girls were--they always laughed. Because they were bitches.