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In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It’s a crapshoot.

Bentley Little

Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my main characters ordinary, average guys.
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Character Reality Thinking
Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.
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Foolishness Hope Men Wife
Life is short. Eternity is long.
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Eternity Life Short
There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though – ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature – and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away.
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Bible Book Fiction Ghost Hell Horror Stories
Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man’s name gives you mastery over him.
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Giving Men Mystery Names
The Revelation was my master’s project, and after I finished it, I thought I’d send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer.
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Jobs Publishment Two Years
I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I’ll just keep writing them until they do sell–and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.
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Book Ghost Horror Job Meantime One Read
Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.
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Circu Evil Matter Murder Stance
I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.
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Desire Forever Vampire
I think the internet is a great marketing tool–but marketing is not my job. I’m a writer. My job is to write novels.
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Jobs Thinking Writing
I would waste countless hours looking up things about myself, writing fake posts about how great I am and arguing with people who don’t like my work. It saves me a lot of time and frustration to just stay out of the loop.
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Arguing Countries Frustration Myself Save Work
I know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror.
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Concerned Downtown Horror Rather Respect Thriller
I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough.
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Fighting Real Thinking
As far as I’m concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that’s the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.
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Community Concern Feel Horror Work Writer
Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume!
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Finally Later Resume Two
In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It’s a crapshoot.
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Crapshoot Good Happy Life Real

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