In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It’s a crapshoot.
BENTLEY LITTLEHope 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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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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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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Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Life is short. Eternity is long.
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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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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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Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man’s name gives you mastery over him.
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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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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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