William Peter Blatty
William Peter Blatty
William Peter Blattyis an American writer and filmmaker. The Exorcist, written in 1971, is his most well-known novel; he also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation, for which he won an Academy Award, and wrote and directed the sequel The Exorcist III...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1928
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
devil wells stills
As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.
father devil doe
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
sold turned
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.
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
devoted portion restoring scenes
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.
affected faith
Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.
eye men sun
Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.
procrastination resistance
Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.
thinking matter belief
For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.
life revenge circles
We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops---which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.
nice feelings definitions
Would you like to hear a nice definition of jealousy? It's the feeling that you get when someone you absolutely detest is having a wonderful time without you.
powerful drug filters
When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.
powerful liars lying
The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.
eye sun blind
The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes