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Bentley Little

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
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
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
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
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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Jobs Publishment Two Years
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
Life is short. Eternity is long.
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Eternity Life Short
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

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