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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.

Bentley Little

Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn’t always have time to do or say the right things.
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Fiction Life Real Right
I write what I want to write. Period. I don’t write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don’t write suspense novels or thrillers.
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Book Character Jobs Writing
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
It helps readers identify with their problems. It also helps ground the supernatural events that follow in a recognizable reality and perhaps gives some of my wilder scenarios a little verisimilitude.
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Ground Help Identity Some Gap Verisimilitude
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
An enigma? That’s not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It’s good for my career.
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Career Mystery Probably Shut
Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That’s one big horror story. And it’s the most popular book on the planet.
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Big Book Devil Ghost Horror One Planet Resurrection
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 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
Life is short. Eternity is long.
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Eternity Life Short
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
There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness.
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Darkness Light Shadow
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
Real life … it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.
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Ambiguous Life Real Sometimes World
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

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