Quotes William Peter Blatty

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. T...

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when...

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its pra...

I can only say that my roots are in humor, and even in the h...

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime earl...

I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that'...

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

I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses dow...

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

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. ...

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any direc...

I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these chan...

There had only been 3 cases of possession that I knew of pri...

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it ve...