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" I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Book
People
Always
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" 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. "
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" There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail as a work of art because of it being horror. Anyone saying otherwise is being intellectually dishonest. "
Paul G. Tremblay
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" I've been a fan of horror and studying it for as long as I can remember. "
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" 'A Head Full of Ghosts' was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer. "
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Coming Home
" My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels. "
Paul G. Tremblay
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" '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. "
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" Getting into graduate school was pure luck. "
Paul G. Tremblay
School
Luck
Graduate School
" The feeling of having no choice or no say is a fear of mine, partly because the idea of loosening oneself from the burden and responsibility of choice and consequence is so intoxicating. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Feeling
Responsibility
Choice
" If what needs to get done is going to get done, then I can't screw around with the luxury of writing rituals or waiting for pristine writing conditions to magically materialize. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Writing
Waiting
Going
" I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Purposeful
Writing
Fiction
" Math was always my best subject growing up. "
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Math
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Growing
" 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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Call
True
Story
" When you trust your subconscious enough to put something in a story and then figure out why it really needed to be there later, when that works out, aye, that's the stuff. "
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" Pop country definitely frightens me, how popular it is. "
Paul G. Tremblay
How
Me
Pop
" I'm certainly no hardcore backpacker, but I do enjoy being out in the woods for a few hours. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Being
Hours
Out
" After my debut didn't go very well with Holt, I needed to be in a healthier head space. I was happy to emerge from there. You will always have those negative thoughts as a writer, but you can't let them take over. If you let them take over, those are the real page killers. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Happy
Space
Negative
" 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
" Ambiguity and the horror of possibility play a part in so many of my favorite horror stories: Shirley Jackson's 'We Will Always Live in the Castle,' Mark Danielewski's 'House of Leaves,' Victor LaValle's 'Big Machine,' Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' Stewart O'Nan's 'The Speed Queen,' and so many more. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Horror
Yellow
Speed
" Marshmallows are kind of weird. I'm not a huge fan. I mean, they're fun when they get molten and melty at the end of a stick, but I always burn my mouth because I'm not all that smart or patient. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Weird
Fun
End
" 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
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Up
" Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in. "
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" 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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Thinking
Down
Stay Focused
" 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
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Good
" Any day in which I get writing done is ideal to me. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Get
Done
Day
" There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways. "
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" For too many of our citizens, Christianity has become entwined with the ecstatic worship of the gun and violence. For the adherents, there is no compassion, no love thy neighbor, no peace, no reason, and God only helps those who arm themselves. "
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Love
" '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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Home
End Of The World
End
" 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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Trying
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Feel
" 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
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" I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King. "
Paul G. Tremblay
King
Writer
Never