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William Peter Blatty Quotes
And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence. - William Peter Blatty Quotes
Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down. - William Peter Blatty Quotes
Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current. - William Peter Blatty Quotes
I can only say that my roots are in humor, and even in the heavier work the humor tends to lend a greater credibility, a feel of real life. - William Peter Blatty Quotes
I didnt read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990s. - William Peter Blatty Quotes
I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie thats made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - thats when I watch my movies. - William Peter Blatty Quotes
I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural. - William Peter Blatty Quotes
I lived in Georgetown in the late 70s about four houses down from the steps. - William Peter Blatty Quotes
I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real. - William Peter Blatty Quotes
Id sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea. - William Peter Blatty Quotes
Im not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious. - William Peter Blatty Quotes
Ive been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie. - William Peter Blatty Quotes
Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith. - William Peter Blatty Quotes
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