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" My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels. "
Paul G. Tremblay
First
Stories
Detective
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" Math was always my best subject growing up. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Math
Growing Up
Growing
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Any day in which I get writing done is ideal to me. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Get
Done
Day
" 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
" Horror is often about how we live in the liminal, whether we want to or not. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Want
About
How
" There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Worthy
Ways
New
" The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Story
Truth
Gets
" '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 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 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
" 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
" I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Purposeful
Writing
Fiction
" Independent horror movies have really stepped up the game, and hopefully mainstream Hollywood will follow suit. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Hollywood
Horror
Movies
" 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
" Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Part
Living
Big
" 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
" What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Nation
Me
Up
" 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 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'm certainly no hardcore backpacker, but I do enjoy being out in the woods for a few hours. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Being
Hours
Out
" 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
" '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
" 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 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 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