Steven King once wrote that nightmares exist outside of logic and there's little fun to be had in explanations. They're antithetical to the poetry of fear. In a horror story the victim keeps asking why, but there can be no explanation and there shouldn't be one. The unanswered mystery is what stays with us the longest and is what we'll remember in the end. My name is Alan Wake, I'm a writer.
A writer is a light that reveals the world of his story from darkness, shapes it from nothingness.
The unanswered mystery is what stays with us the longest, and it's what we'll remember in the end.
This is the ritual to lead you on, your friends will meet him when you're gone!
Alan Wake - II
Welcome. We have a great show for you here tonight. Alan Wake! One of my all-time favorite writers, and guest on the show. He's here to talk about his latest book. Initiation tells the story of a fictional writer named Alan Wake, who's trapped in a nightmare. Desperately trying to find the manuscript of a novel he has forgotten he has written.
Alan Wake - II
Wait, are you seriously telling me that geek writer just took out my deputies? Are you kidding me? I mean, have you seen this guy? He wears a tweed jacket!
Sheriff Breaker
You're a pretty good writer. A little heavy on the metaphors, maybe.
Sheriff Breaker
I was operating on the shifting logic of a dream.
I think my tongue just took a crap in my mouth.
Barry Wheeler
See this headlamp? It's like a superpower! I can just look at one of those things and they die! It's my flaming eye of Mordor!
Barry Wheeler
