'A Head Full of Ghosts' was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer. Paul G. Tremblay More Quotes by Paul G. Tremblay More Quotes From Paul G. Tremblay The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel for his characters and their twisted, damaged lives; he makes you *want* to feel. Paul G. Tremblay sounddoecharacter Ambiguity and the horror of possibility play a part in so many of my favorite horror stories: Shirley Jackson's 'We Will Always Live in the Castle,' Mark Danielewski's 'House of Leaves,' Victor LaValle's 'Big Machine,' Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' Stewart O'Nan's 'The Speed Queen,' and so many more. Paul G. Tremblay queenlivehouseyellow There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself. Paul G. Tremblay beyondconsequencesgreatviolence What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings. Paul G. Tremblay nationupmenight 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. Paul G. Tremblay gungodlovepeace 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. Paul G. Tremblay luxurydonewaitingwriting Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in. Paul G. Tremblay biglivingambiguityworld 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 somethingparentingworkchildren 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 beinglikefuturepermanent The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be. Paul G. Tremblay storythingshorrortruth I've been a fan of horror and studying it for as long as I can remember. Paul G. Tremblay studyingi-canrememberlong My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels. Paul G. Tremblay detectivefirstquirkytwo 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 storywritinglovebook I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like. Paul G. Tremblay confidentfeellikewriting I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing. Paul G. Tremblay alwaystalkingbookpeople 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. Paul G. Tremblay weirdendsmartfun 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 downstay-focusedfocusedthinking Any day in which I get writing done is ideal to me. Paul G. Tremblay daymedonewriting 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. Paul G. Tremblay sayingstoryworkart 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-feel-likefeeleverythinglike
