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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
Crime
Writing
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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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
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" I want folks to take horror seriously. "
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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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
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Fear
" Pop country definitely frightens me, how popular it is. "
Paul G. Tremblay
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Me
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" I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King. "
Paul G. Tremblay
King
Writer
Never
" 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
" 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
Human
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Happy
Space
Negative
" Math was always my best subject growing up. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Math
Growing Up
Growing
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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've been a fan of horror and studying it for as long as I can remember. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Remember
Horror
I Can
" 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
" Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in. "
Paul G. Tremblay
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Living
Big
" '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
" 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
" Getting into graduate school was pure luck. "
Paul G. Tremblay
School
Luck
Graduate School
" I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Purposeful
Writing
Fiction
" I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Comfortable
Writing
Feel
" Any day in which I get writing done is ideal to me. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Get
Done
Day
" 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
" There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Beyond
Violence
Great
" '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
" My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels. "
Paul G. Tremblay
First
Stories
Detective