Top 50 Edgar Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Edgar Quotes from famous people such as Howie Carr, Hilarie Burton, Margaret Atwood, Samantha Shannon, Drew Daywalt, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoo

You know, back in the 1950s and ’60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he’d be arrested.
Howie Carr
I’ve named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers – and there’s a raven statue.
Hilarie Burton
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
Margaret Atwood
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ when I left high school, which has always been very special to me – it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I’m also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
Samantha Shannon
I tend to look way back for my inspiration: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe.
Drew Daywalt
My first letter of acceptance, to UMass – Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.
Alexander Chee
John Edgar Park introduced me to the gentle art of recreational lock-picking. It’s fun and potentially useful to know how to tickle tumblers in the right way to open door locks and padlocks.
Mark Frauenfelder
All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing in the bread line – right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
Lenny Bruce
In 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs, having failed at everything else, decided to write a novel. He was then in his mid-thirties, married with two children, barely supporting his family as the agent for a pencil-sharpener business.
Michael Dirda
J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was interesting to me that he clearly had to know that there was such a thing as organized crime and organized criminals as far back as the ’20s.
Terence Winter
Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film.
Rosamund Pike
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
H. P. Lovecraft
The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe’s pajamas.
Tom Robbins
When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, ‘The Thomas Berryman Number’, and it was turned down by, I don’t know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.
James Patterson
The notion of law enforcement as professional, not political, began developing as an aspiration and an ethos even while, in practice, the FBI was the personal fiefdom of J. Edgar Hoover.
Benjamin Wittes
Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
Giles Foden
My father was the first black Secret Service agent. He wanted to get into the FBI but J. Edgar Hoover, who was the head of the FBI, was a racist and he said we don’t want any black people.
Daryl Davis
Edgar Meyer’s violin concerto was the first piece of contemporary music I worked on in any depth. I was 18 or 19.
Hilary Hahn
I didn’t read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ‘Tarzan’ and that kind of stuff.
Jesse L. Martin
A lot of the guys who played in the 1995 final for Ajax had been there since the age of 12 or 13. Patrick Kluivert and Edgar Davids had been there from age seven or eight, so I had a lot of catching up to do.
Edwin van der Sar
Angela Davis’s legacy as a freedom fighter made her an enemy of the state under the increasingly neoliberal regimes of Nixon, Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover because she understood that the struggle for freedom was not only a struggle for political and individual rights but also for economic rights.
Henry Giroux
When I got the deal to do ‘J. Edgar,’ which was really the brainchild of Brian Grazer, ‘Milk’ hadn’t come out yet. We had just completed principal photography, and it was still basically this little film where we just really hoped someone would see it.
Dustin Lance Black
I played at White Hart Lane against Michael Carrick and Edgar Davids when I was 18.
Mark Noble
Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world’s greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.
Ronald Kessler
Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever.
Simon Pegg
My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart’s Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the active components in electronic circuits. I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.
David Lee
As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.
Charles M. Schwab
I fight guys that no one has ever heard of; I fought guys who are legends, like Frankie Edgar.
Urijah Faber
I’ve always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as my new novel, ‘So Cold the River,’ for which the brilliant strings piece ‘Short Trip Home,’ composed by Edgar Meyer and featuring the incredible Joshua Bell on violin, inspired much of the story.
Michael Koryta
My favorite poem ever was ‘Annabel Lee’ by Edgar Allan Poe.
Ross Lynch
I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.
Jamie Wyeth
When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I re

When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read – Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier – were rhyme poets. That’s what captured me.
Marv Levy
You can’t be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to Ray Bradbury, to H.G. Wells, to the guys who first put it in the public imagination that Mars was an exciting place.
Robert J. Sawyer
Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition – even to close family, friends or co-workers – because there’s still a great deal of stigma and mystery surrounding the disease that plagued such historical figures as Julius Caesar, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll.
Lynda Resnick
Edgar Allan Poe, I think he’s a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years old that was my grandfather’s, and I still carry it around with me.
Dove Cameron
By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.
Alexander Cockburn
Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce’s son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.
Henry Reed
I’ve been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Jack Prelutsky
One time, I had to do Edgar in ‘King Lear’ and Owl in ‘Winnie the Pooh’ on the same day.
Jonathan Pryce
I go back to read ‘Tarzan’ books every now and again or ‘John Carter,’ and you realize Edgar Rice Burroughs is not a great writer by any means. But he was a great storyteller. You wanted to see what happened next.
Shane Black
The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it’s hard to fit them into any one box.
Drew Goddard
We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.
Val Guest
Manuel is still today a good friend. The others I see rarely, but with Edgar I phone from time to time.
Klaus Schulze
Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can’t think back before a time that I didn’t love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe – I am sure I didn’t understand it, but I loved it.
Alexandra Adornetto
I got to share the Octagon with Clay Guida. I got to share the Octagon with Cub Swanson. Now I’m going to share the Octagon with Frankie Edgar. These are things that, as a fighter, you always dream of.
Brian Ortega
Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover’s electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.
Louis Stokes
I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.
Andy Richter
When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as vulgar, ill-written potboilers.
Michael Dirda
Mike Matheny, Fernando Vina, Edgar Renteria, Mark McGwire and Darryl Kile… before he died. Those guys took me under their wing and taught me the way to play the game the right way.
Albert Pujols
I remember when I was very young, I had a fever – a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father’s books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me.
Dario Argento