It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be …

- Cornell Woolrich

The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a glistening…

- Cornell Woolrich

Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very selfsame inch of ground your feet were …

- Cornell Woolrich

It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it to…

- Cornell Woolrich

I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can…

- Cornell Woolrich

You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it…

- Cornell Woolrich

All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.

- Cornell Woolrich

It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died already. It is the endless obliteration, the knowledge that t…

- Cornell Woolrich

The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of whi…

- Cornell Woolrich