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Top 15 Whitley Strieber Quotes (2025 Update)

Whitley Strieber Quote: “The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it’s literature.”

1. “The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it’s literature.”

— Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber Quote: “Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen – that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we’re still praying to their gods.”

2. “Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen – that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we’re still praying to their gods.”

— Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber Quote: “Maybe that’s what the quasars that stand sentinel at the end of the universe are all about – they are the spots where people like Socrates and Christ dug through; they are windows into bright and terrible wisdom. They are warnings.”

3. “Maybe that’s what the quasars that stand sentinel at the end of the universe are all about – they are the spots where people like Socrates and Christ dug through; they are windows into bright and terrible wisdom. They are warnings.”

— Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber Quote: “In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse – burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.”

4. “In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse – burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.”

— Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber Quote: “In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities after death?”

5. “In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities after death?”

— Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber Quote: “The Sleep lasted six hours. For most of that time John lay beside Miriam watching the shadows.”

6. “The Sleep lasted six hours. For most of that time John lay beside Miriam watching the shadows.”

— Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber Quote: “I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.”

7. “I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.”

— Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber Quote: “Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.”

8. “Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.”

— Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber Quote: “I’m not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.”

9. “I’m not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.”

— Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber Quote: “I put the copy of ‘A Christmas Carol’ that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the ‘Christmas Spirits.’ I plan to read it to my grandson.”

10. “I put the copy of ‘A Christmas Carol’ that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the ‘Christmas Spirits.’ I plan to read it to my grandson.”

— Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber Quote: “I’ve got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.”

11. “I’ve got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.”

— Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber Quote: “It is very easy to claim a theory of everything if you get to decide what that everything is. It is very easy to explain everything on the table if you have put everything you cannot explain underneath it in the wastebasket.”

12. “It is very easy to claim a theory of everything if you get to decide what that everything is. It is very easy to explain everything on the table if you have put everything you cannot explain underneath it in the wastebasket.”

— Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber Quote: “The interesting thing about fiction from a writer’s standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.”

13. “The interesting thing about fiction from a writer’s standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.”

— Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber Quote: “We humans have a nasty habit of deciding to believe that things we don’t actually understand are explained in some way that we make up. And the next thing we know, we’re killing each other over these imaginings.”

14. “We humans have a nasty habit of deciding to believe that things we don’t actually understand are explained in some way that we make up. And the next thing we know, we’re killing each other over these imaginings.”

— Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber Quote: “If love killed, let it kill him now. Maybe they would be reunited in death.”

15. “If love killed, let it kill him now. Maybe they would be reunited in death.”

— Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber Quote: “Beliefs are walls. Questions are doors.”

16. “Beliefs are walls. Questions are doors.”

— Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber Quote: “Very quietly, hidden away from the scorn and disbelief of the people who cling to the old, dying reality, a new one is being born, and rich, fulfilling relationships between the living and what we call the dead are at the center of it.”

17. “Very quietly, hidden away from the scorn and disbelief of the people who cling to the old, dying reality, a new one is being born, and rich, fulfilling relationships between the living and what we call the dead are at the center of it.”

— Whitley Strieber

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