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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

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" Independent horror movies have really stepped up the game, and hopefully mainstream Hollywood will follow suit. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" 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

" I'm certainly no hardcore backpacker, but I do enjoy being out in the woods for a few hours. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" 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

" 'A Head Full of Ghosts' was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" 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

" 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

" There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" 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

" 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

" Any day in which I get writing done is ideal to me. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" 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

" 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

" 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

" I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" '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

" My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" 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

" 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

" Math was always my best subject growing up. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" I've been a fan of horror and studying it for as long as I can remember. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" Horror is often about how we live in the liminal, whether we want to or not. "

Paul G. Tremblay

" 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