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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.

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Life is short. Eternity is long.
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Eternity Life Short
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
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
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
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 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
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
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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Choices Darkness 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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