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
house four steps
I lived in Georgetown in the late 70s about four houses down from the steps.
house haunting hills
I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.
thinking house humanity
Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this house. And I think---I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial; as ultimately vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy.
men house black
From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.
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.
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.
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.
father devil doe
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
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.