Quotes about William Peter Blatty

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not...

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Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my...

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I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a...

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I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often...

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I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just...

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I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I...

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I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps.

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I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but...

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I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it...

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I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

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Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or...

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Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they...

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