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Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones
American Author
Born: 1972
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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas. Stephen Graham Jones
Christmas People Halloween Some People Some Born Counting Days Until Just
Most zombie stories, the problems they solve are not the actual zombies. The problems they solve are the human interactions. Stephen Graham Jones
Problems Solve Most Human Interactions Stories Actual Zombie Zombies
In the 40 years since 'The Amityville Horror', dramatizations of those supposedly-real events have gotten loose enough - special-effects laden enough, star-power re-packaged enough - that the audience no longer trusts the dramatization's loyalty to the core story. Stephen Graham Jones
Loyalty Events Enough Those Horror Longer Since Loose Audience Gotten Years Trusts Story Core
Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark. Stephen Graham Jones
Dark Become Vampire Vampires Seduction Scary Longer Tales Tragic Romantic Figures Creature Largely
You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains. Stephen Graham Jones
You Our Negotiate Eat Only Brains Impulse Us Zombie
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. Stephen Graham Jones
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You have to want the haunted house to scare you. It completely steals your money to go through with one of those people who shrug it all off, who touch the monsters' faces to show they're fake. Stephen Graham Jones
You People Money Monsters Those Scare Haunted Touch Faces Steals Through House Fake Go Off Want Your Show Who
The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately. Stephen Graham Jones
Humor Control Drama Way Immediately Out Valve Would Horror Almost Without Used
I think America would do anything through a drive-through. Stephen Graham Jones
Think Would Through America Anything
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. Stephen Graham Jones
Time Balance World Rest Stupid Back Out Seem Rational Absolutely Thrown Without Stories Story Decisions Necessary Need
Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them. Stephen Graham Jones
Sad Happy People Writing Simple Too Much Difficult Too Earn Laugh Easy Somber More Because Audience Making Tragic Than Endings Jaded Fiction Them Much Comparison
You always want to read something that everybody says has gone too far, don't you? That's supposed to not just be charting our decline, but embodying it? Stephen Graham Jones
You Just Be Gone Too Everybody Our Says Something Supposed Read Always Just Want Decline Far
Joe Lansdale is one of the few writers able to write in whatever genre or mode he wants on any particular day. How? He doesn't ask permission. He just steps in, out-writes everybody in the room. Stephen Graham Jones
Day Few Whatever Everybody Joe Able Write Writers He Steps Particular Genre How Permission Mode Any Just Wants Room Ask
I would highly, highly recommend seeing 'Paranormal Activity' with a friend or, better yet, a group. Stephen Graham Jones
Better Group Recommend Would Paranormal Seeing Highly Friend Activity
You come out of your MFA program with a cogent clutch of stories, trying to get an agent interested, and she or he admits these are quality, sure, but this agent actually needs something the publisher can make money on. So you get kind of bullied by the market into writing a novel. Stephen Graham Jones
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The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it. Stephen Graham Jones
Change Ending Too Industry Psyche Stories Ingrained Whole Novels Thing Starting
With slow-moving zombies, what always comes at stake is our humanity. Stephen Graham Jones
Humanity Our Always Stake Zombies
In the fast zombie stories, it's not our humanity that is at stake anymore. It's our survival. Stephen Graham Jones
Survival Humanity Our Anymore Stories Stake Fast Zombie
We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please. Stephen Graham Jones
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