A biography for Paul G. Tremblayhasn’t been written yet.
“I've been a fan of horror and studying it for as long as I can remember.”
“For too many of our citizens, Christianity has become entwined with the ecstatic worship of the gun and violence. For the adherents, there is no compassion, no love thy neighbor, no peace, no reason, and God only helps those who arm themselves.”
“The feeling of having no choice or no say is a fear of mine, partly because the idea of loosening oneself from the burden and responsibility of choice and consequence is so intoxicating.”
“I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like.”
“I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction.”
“There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail as a work of art because of it being horror. Anyone saying otherwise is being intellectually dishonest.”
“'A Head Full of Ghosts' was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer.”
“'The Cabin at the End of the World' is my riff on the 'home invasion' subgenre of horror/suspense. Hopefully it's a big, loud, dark riff.”
“Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling.”
“In the early 2000s, I started selling some short stories to horror markets. I joined the Horror Writers Association.”
“I was definitely a child of the '80s. Cable TV was new. I watched a ton of movies and a ton of TV. HBO would show the same movies over and over again, so I'd watch the same movies over and over again.”
“I have to admit to being a music snob. I think, in a parallel universe, I pretty easily could have been Jack Black's character from 'High Fidelity,' working in a record store and snidely commenting on everyone's purchases.”