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.
BENTLEY LITTLEHell, 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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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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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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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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Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.
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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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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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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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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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I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.
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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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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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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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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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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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I write horror because I enjoy it. I’m endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don’t have much choice. This is the way my mind works.
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