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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.

Bentley Little

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
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
Life is short. Eternity is long.
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Eternity Life Short
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Like most authors, I’m a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access,
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Access Frustration Internet Writing
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
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

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