A biography for William Peter Blattyhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“The child was slender as fleeting hope.”
“Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.”
“But if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good?”