Paul G. Tremblay Quotes

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Paul G. Tremblay

Profession : Author

Birth : June 30, 1971

A large part of the appeal of this novel when I was lucky enough to stumble across the story idea for 'A Head Full of Ghosts' was that I'd finally be writing a horror novel. In a lot of ways, the book is both my criticism of and love letter to horror.

Paul G. Tremblay

I feel like too many horror writers and filmmakers sort of just assume that the default is, 'The horror movie must be all atmosphere first and everything else second.'

Paul G. Tremblay

I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like.

Paul G. Tremblay

I don't consciously sit down thinking I'm blurring genre lines, for the most part. I try to stay focused solely on serving the needs of the particular story on which I'm working.

Paul G. Tremblay

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.

Paul G. Tremblay

Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling.

Paul G. Tremblay

The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.

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I've been a fan of horror and studying it for as long as I can remember.

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My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.

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I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.

Paul G. Tremblay

Marshmallows are kind of weird. I'm not a huge fan. I mean, they're fun when they get molten and melty at the end of a stick, but I always burn my mouth because I'm not all that smart or patient.

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Any day in which I get writing done is ideal to me.

Paul G. Tremblay

There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail as a work of art because of it being horror. Anyone saying otherwise is being intellectually dishonest.

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I'm certainly no hardcore backpacker, but I do enjoy being out in the woods for a few hours.

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If what needs to get done is going to get done, then I can't screw around with the luxury of writing rituals or waiting for pristine writing conditions to magically materialize.

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I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction.

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As an adult, I've learned to cope and pull the plug on the worst what-ifs before my mind takes me to a place from which I can't return.

Paul G. Tremblay

For too many of our citizens, Christianity has become entwined with the ecstatic worship of the gun and violence. For the adherents, there is no compassion, no love thy neighbor, no peace, no reason, and God only helps those who arm themselves.

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What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings.

Paul G. Tremblay

'A Head Full of Ghosts' was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer.

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