188 Quotes by Seth Grahame-Smith

I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award.

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.

My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it needed to be an experience that people would enjoy having.

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.