American - Author | 1972 -
Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.
Stephen Graham Jones
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You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains.
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For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.
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There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.
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Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.
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Every time I lock my people in a spacecraft or land them on an asteroid, the blood wells up again, and I'm writing horror. Horror's my default setting. It's also where I prefer to write.
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When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways.
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I feel very at home in L.A., I think, because it's dry, and there's sun, like the West Texas I grew up in.
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I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.
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I think America would do anything through a drive-through.
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Stories need stupid decisions that, at the time, seem absolutely rational and necessary. Without stupid decisions, the world isn't thrown out of balance, and so there's no need for a 'rest of the story' to balance it back.
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If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.
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