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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
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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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Violence
Peace
Love
" 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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Parenting
Children
Without
" 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
" I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Book
People
Always
" 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
" 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'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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Math
Growing Up
Growing
" 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
" Any day in which I get writing done is ideal to me. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Get
Done
Day
" 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 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
" 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 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
" There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Worthy
Ways
New
" 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
" 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
" 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'm certainly no hardcore backpacker, but I do enjoy being out in the woods for a few hours. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Being
Hours
Out
" 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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Become
Time
You
" Independent horror movies have really stepped up the game, and hopefully mainstream Hollywood will follow suit. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Hollywood
Horror
Movies
" 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
" Horror is often about how we live in the liminal, whether we want to or not. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Want
About
How
" My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels. "
Paul G. Tremblay
First
Stories
Detective
" 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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Create
Crime
Horror
" Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Part
Living
Big
" 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'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
" '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
" Pop country definitely frightens me, how popular it is. "
Paul G. Tremblay
How
Me
Pop