Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Pop country definitely frightens me, how popular it is. "
Paul G. Tremblay
How
Me
Pop
Related Quotes:
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Comfortable
Writing
Feel
" 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
" My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels. "
Paul G. Tremblay
First
Stories
Detective
" 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
" '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
" 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 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 a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Purposeful
Writing
Fiction
" 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
Loss
Experience
Fear
" 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 always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Book
People
Always
" '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
" 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
" 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 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Independent horror movies have really stepped up the game, and hopefully mainstream Hollywood will follow suit. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Hollywood
Horror
Movies
" 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
" I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King. "
Paul G. Tremblay
King
Writer
Never