The best Quotes from Alan Wake

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!

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.

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!

You're a pretty good writer. A little heavy on the metaphors, maybe.

I was operating on the shifting logic of a dream.

I think my tongue just took a crap in my mouth.

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!

You don't tell me where that other bomb is, and I'll make sure you spend your prison time on your bigoted hands and knees putting a big smile on some convict's face.

Sometimes the only sane answer to an insane world is insanity.

There's a lot of money to be made in scaring people.

I've often felt that dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.

"Back in the day." Scully, "back in the day" is now.

I don't have time for your convenient ignorance.

Time has a way of shedding light on injustices.

"Baby" me and you'll be peeing through a catheter.

I want you to do me a favor. It's not negotiable, either you do it, or I kill you. You understand?

The truth is out there, but so are lies.

You know, I haven't eaten since 6:00 this morning, and all that was was a half a cream cheese bagel, and it wasn't even real cream cheese, it was light cream cheese!

Why can't you compare Washington State and Florida?
Because it'd be like comparing apples and oranges.

One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Washington - and that's pretty much the same thing.

I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

J.K. Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

At some point maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves that reality is better. We convince ourselves it's better that we never dream at all. But, the strongest of us, the most determined of us, holds on to the dream or we find ourselves faced with a fresh dream we never considered. We wake to find ourselves, against all odds, feeling hopeful. And, if we're lucky, we realize in the face of everything, in the face of life the true dream is being able to dream at all.

I'm not gonna ask you if you just said what I think you just said because I know it's what you just said.

No one, no government agency, has jurisdiction over the truth.

You two came along and you taught me not to hide from it, but to have the guts to shine a light directly into the darkest corners. And if given the choice between advancing my career by being blindly loyal to some faceless puppeteers pulling strings from the shadows or to throw in with you two, make no mistake about it, I'd make the same decision every single damn time.

Billy Freeman: "Not many ride the bus this far north. Are you running away from something?"
Danny Torrance: "I'm running away from myself, I guess."

The soil of a man's heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.

Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are a-sholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

Incoming friendly fire! Dodge - or don't. Your call.