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" I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like. "

Paul G. Tremblay

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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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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" 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.' "

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" '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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" I've been a fan of horror and studying it for as long as I can remember. "

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" In the early 2000s, I started selling some short stories to horror markets. I joined the Horror Writers Association. "

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" 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

" 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. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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

" '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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" I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing. "

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" I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" 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

" 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

" My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels. "

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" 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. "

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" I want folks to take horror seriously. "

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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

" 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

" The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be. "

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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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" Pop country definitely frightens me, how popular it is. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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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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