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Bentley Little

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
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
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
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
Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can–plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.
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Novelists Real Writing
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If there’s any mystery to me at all, it’s probably due to the fact that I’m not online and don’t go to conventions–which means that I’m probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it.
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Facts Fans Mean Online
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
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

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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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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