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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

Stephen Graham Jones quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stephen Graham Jones quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stephen Graham Jones quotes: 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.

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

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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

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

Stephen Graham Jones quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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 quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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