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

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

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

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.

There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

My grandfather used to tell me he was a werewolf. He'd

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

It was a good day to die, but nobody did.

With slow-moving zombies, what always comes at stake is our humanity.

If you're not a beautiful monster, then you're a villager,

I think America would do anything through a drive-through.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.

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.

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.

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.

The slasher film is such a neat, self-contained genre.

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.

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

The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.

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.

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

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

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