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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. "
Paul G. Tremblay
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" '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
" I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King. "
Paul G. Tremblay
King
Writer
Never
" When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't. "
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Work
Write
I Wish
" In the early 2000s, I started selling some short stories to horror markets. I joined the Horror Writers Association. "
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Early
Started
Short
" 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
" My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels. "
Paul G. Tremblay
First
Stories
Detective
" 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 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
" 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 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
" 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
" Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Part
Living
Big
" 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
" 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
" '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
" 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 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 always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Book
People
Always
" Any day in which I get writing done is ideal to me. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Get
Done
Day
" Math was always my best subject growing up. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Math
Growing Up
Growing
" 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 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
" 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
" Horror is often about how we live in the liminal, whether we want to or not. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Want
About
How
" 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
" There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself. "
Paul G. Tremblay
Beyond
Violence
Great
" 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
" 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
" Pop country definitely frightens me, how popular it is. "
Paul G. Tremblay
How
Me
Pop
" 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
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