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People shouldn't go broke making a haunted house. Or, we should pay for our enjoyment, definitely. — Stephen Graham Jones

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end. — Stephen Graham Jones

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story. — Stephen Graham Jones

If the main character's not in jeopardy - physical, psychological, emotional, whatever - then you don't have any tension, and you don't have a story. — Stephen Graham Jones

There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared. — Stephen Graham Jones

Most zombie stories, the problems they solve are not the actual zombies. The problems they solve are the human interactions. — Stephen Graham Jones

But at some point you have to just decide that if a bear's going to eat you, a bear's going to eat you, and then you go about your day. — Stephen Graham Jones

Thanks Giving.
The Indian and the White Man together.
The pageantry spoke to me of civilization. — Stephen Graham Jones

I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer. — Stephen Graham Jones

Each moment, the world washes its hands of you, starts all over again. Easy as that. Wonderful as that. — Stephen Graham Jones

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art. — Stephen Graham Jones

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters. — Stephen Graham Jones

My grandfather used to tell me he was a werewolf. He'd — Stephen Graham Jones

With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called. — Stephen Graham Jones

It was a good day to die, but nobody did. — Stephen Graham Jones

With slow-moving zombies, what always comes at stake is our humanity. — Stephen Graham Jones

If you're not a beautiful monster, then you're a villager, — Stephen Graham Jones

I think America would do anything through a drive-through. — Stephen Graham Jones

Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction. — Stephen Graham Jones

If there's any better place to get stoned than a rolling box full of pastry, then they didn't have the keys for it, anyway. — Stephen Graham Jones

You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains. — Stephen Graham Jones

I would highly, highly recommend seeing 'Paranormal Activity' with a friend or, better yet, a group. — Stephen Graham Jones

That night, though, Dick wakes up crying, but happy too, the bitter aftertaste of a happy ending in his mouth. — Stephen Graham Jones

We tell ourselves zombie stories to remind us we shouldn't live beyond the natural boundaries of life - or seek a third stage of life in this world. — Stephen Graham Jones

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

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. — Stephen Graham Jones

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

This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice
blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance across the page. — Stephen Graham Jones

The slasher film is such a neat, self-contained genre. — Stephen Graham Jones

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. — Stephen Graham Jones

In the fast zombie stories, it's not our humanity that is at stake anymore. It's our survival. — Stephen Graham Jones

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

Could feel the reservation wheeling around him, changing shape so that he nearly had to vomit, or hold his arms to his head and scream against it all. — Stephen Graham Jones

Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas. — Stephen Graham Jones

The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist. — Stephen Graham Jones

Hannibal Lecter stole Leatherface's mask and ported the slasher conventions into the thriller for the early '90s. — Stephen Graham Jones