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" As an adult, I've learned to cope and pull the plug on the worst what-ifs before my mind takes me to a place from which I can't return. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Return
Worst
Before
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" I was definitely a child of the '80s. Cable TV was new. I watched a ton of movies and a ton of TV. HBO would show the same movies over and over again, so I'd watch the same movies over and over again. "
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" Horror is often about how we live in the liminal, whether we want to or not. "
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About
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" The response to 'A Head Full of Ghosts' has been amazing and thrilling. I'd be lying if I said I don't feel a little extra pressure trying to follow it up. "
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Feel
" I'm certainly no hardcore backpacker, but I do enjoy being out in the woods for a few hours. "
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Being
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Out
" I won't call 'Cabin' an anti-home invasion story, because that's not exactly true, but the home-invasion subgenre is one I generally don't gravitate toward as a reader or film viewer. "
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" So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why. "
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Children
Without
" I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction. "
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Writing
Fiction
" 'The Cabin at the End of the World' is my riff on the 'home invasion' subgenre of horror/suspense. Hopefully it's a big, loud, dark riff. "
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Home
End Of The World
End
" 'A Head Full of Ghosts' was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Home
Ghosts
Coming Home
" I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Comfortable
Writing
Feel
" Math was always my best subject growing up. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Math
Growing Up
Growing
" I think I got serious about writing in the late '90s. The first stuff I wrote was terrible and got rejected, but I started getting more encouraging rejection letters. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Rejection
Late
Think
" While being a parent has been the most fulfilling experience of my life, it comes with a price. Besides the onslaught of worries and fears that can be paralyzing, more personally there is a struggle with identity, or the fear of loss or usurpsion of identity, if that makes sense. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Loss
Experience
Fear
" Whenever you bring reality TV into the mix, it's only a matter of time before, whatever fiction you come up with, it'll become real. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Become
Time
You
" My first book deal was for two Mark Genevich novels. I hadn't planned on writing a second Genevich novel, but I was contracted to do so, and so there I was being introduced as a crime writer. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Planned
Crime
Writing
" Getting into graduate school was pure luck. "
Paul G. Tremblay
School
Luck
Graduate School
" The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Story
Truth
Gets
" Pop country definitely frightens me, how popular it is. "
Paul G. Tremblay
How
Me
Pop
" 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' is excellent. I adore how the film is both grounded in realism and, at the same time, it has an ethereal, nightmarish atmosphere. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Grounded
Film
May
" Chance, choice, and consequence are fundamental parts of existence and perfect fodder for a horror story - or any story, for that matter, that asks, 'How do you live through this? How does anyone live through this?' "
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Choice
Perfect
Live
" I've been a fan of horror and studying it for as long as I can remember. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Remember
Horror
I Can
" I was a good boy in high school , and I read for English class, and I vaguely remember reading, as a kid, 'Choose Your Own Adventure' stuff, but I didn't really read for pleasure. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Adventure
School
Good
" What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings. "
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Nation
Me
Up
" Any day in which I get writing done is ideal to me. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Get
Done
Day
" A large part of the appeal of this novel when I was lucky enough to stumble across the story idea for 'A Head Full of Ghosts' was that I'd finally be writing a horror novel. In a lot of ways, the book is both my criticism of and love letter to horror. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Love
Book
Criticism
" I don't consciously sit down thinking I'm blurring genre lines, for the most part. I try to stay focused solely on serving the needs of the particular story on which I'm working. "
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Thinking
Down
Stay Focused
" Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in. "
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Part
Living
Big
" I have to admit to being a music snob. I think, in a parallel universe, I pretty easily could have been Jack Black's character from 'High Fidelity,' working in a record store and snidely commenting on everyone's purchases. "
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Universe
Character
Black
" I want folks to take horror seriously. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Horror
Folks
Seriously
" My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels. "
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First
Stories
Detective