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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.
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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.
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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,
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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 niceblunt 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.
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