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" I've been a fan of horror and studying it for as long as I can remember. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Remember
Horror
I Can
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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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" In the early 2000s, I started selling some short stories to horror markets. I joined the Horror Writers Association. "
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" There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself. "
Paul G. Tremblay
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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 became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King. "
Paul G. Tremblay
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" What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings. "
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Nation
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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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Movies
Watch
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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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" 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
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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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Feel
" I'm certainly no hardcore backpacker, but I do enjoy being out in the woods for a few hours. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Being
Hours
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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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Coming Home
" 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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" 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
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Writing
" How children attempt to deal with everyday comedies and tragedies, and mortality, is universal and ultimately such a large part of what it means to be human. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Children
Everyday
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" 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
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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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Create
Crime
Horror
" 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
" My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels. "
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First
Stories
Detective
" 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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Math
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Growing
" 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. "
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Waiting
Going
" Getting into graduate school was pure luck. "
Paul G. Tremblay
School
Luck
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" Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in. "
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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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Call
True
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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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Worst
Before
" I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing. "
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People
Always
" I want folks to take horror seriously. "
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Horror
Folks
Seriously
" Any day in which I get writing done is ideal to me. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Get
Done
Day
" 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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Honest
Stupid
Book