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I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

~Richard Matheson

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I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

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I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just about normal people who had something bizarre happening to them in the neighborhood.

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To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because we haven't been able to understand it yet.

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I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal.

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'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn't get that going in my mind. I don't know exactly where the idea of just a man pitting himself against a robot boxer came from.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 20th, 1926

Died: June 23rd, 2013

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