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Top 12 William Peter Blatty Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

“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

“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

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

― William Peter Blatty

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

― William Peter Blatty

“I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that’s made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination – that’s when I watch my movies.”

― William Peter Blatty

“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

“I lived in Georgetown in the late ’70s about four houses down from the steps.”

― William Peter Blatty

“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

“I’d sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.”

― William Peter Blatty

“I’m not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.”

― William Peter Blatty

“I’ve 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

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

― William Peter Blatty

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