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" 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
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" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
Work
Art
Story
" 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
" 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
" I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Comfortable
Writing
Feel
" I want folks to take horror seriously. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Horror
Folks
Seriously
" Horror is often about how we live in the liminal, whether we want to or not. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Want
About
How
" 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
" 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
" 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
" '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'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
" 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
Routine
" '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
" 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
" I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King. "
Paul G. Tremblay
King
Writer
Never
" Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Part
Living
Big
" 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 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
" When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Work
Write
I Wish
" 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
" '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
" 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
" 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
" Math was always my best subject growing up. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Math
Growing Up
Growing
" 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
" 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
Ghosts
Feel