James Herbert quotes:

I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.

I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.

For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.

Drip, drip, the rain comes falling, Rain in the woods, rain on the sea; Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling As if to find shelter here with me.

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

To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.

I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love.