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" I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King. "
Paul G. Tremblay
King
Writer
Never
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" 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. "
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" Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in. "
Paul G. Tremblay
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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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Trying
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" 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 it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't. "
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Work
Write
I Wish
" 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
" Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Future
Like
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" In the early 2000s, I started selling some short stories to horror markets. I joined the Horror Writers Association. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Early
Started
Short
" 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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Why
You
Your
" 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 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
" 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
" Horror is often about how we live in the liminal, whether we want to or not. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Want
About
How
" 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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Universe
Character
Black
" I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Comfortable
Writing
Feel
" What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Nation
Me
Up
" 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 always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Book
People
Always
" I do remember dancing in my living room when my short story 'The Laughing Man Meets Little Cat' won a Chizine fiction contest in 2002. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Story
Short
Living
" I'm harsh on myself. But let's be honest: I'm not as harsh as the online one-star critic who says, 'This book is boring and stupid and smells like poo.' "
Paul G. Tremblay
Honest
Stupid
Book
" There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Beyond
Violence
Great
" 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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Movies
Watch
Show
" I feel like too many horror writers and filmmakers sort of just assume that the default is, 'The horror movie must be all atmosphere first and everything else second.' "
Paul G. Tremblay
First
Feel
Everything
" I want folks to take horror seriously. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Horror
Folks
Seriously
" 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?' "
Paul G. Tremblay
Choice
Perfect
Live
" '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
" '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
" '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 closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Story
Truth
Gets
" 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