Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.
People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.
Terror made me cruel.
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
Fear is one of those really primal emotions which you don't want to have incredibly exciting modulations and complex harmonies and all that kind of stuff.
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.