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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.' "

Paul G. Tremblay

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" 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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" 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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" Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Math was always my best subject growing up. "

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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.' "

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" Independent horror movies have really stepped up the game, and hopefully mainstream Hollywood will follow suit. "

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" Crime, horror, and satire each aim to reveal an ugly or uncomfortable truth: one that, after the reveal, will ensure we'll never be the same. The big difference between those genres being the effect they create. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" I'm certainly no hardcore backpacker, but I do enjoy being out in the woods for a few hours. "

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

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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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" 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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" I want folks to take horror seriously. "

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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 became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King. "

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

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" Horror is often about how we live in the liminal, whether we want to or not. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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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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" 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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