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One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

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Christopher Bollen
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: November 26
Journalist
Novelist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Horror
Full
Write
Book
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The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.
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The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.
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Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.
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My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I constantly watched horror movies.
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When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.
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I was a very scared child.
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I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade.
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My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.
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There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first page exactly what's going to happen.
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It's always fun to welcome new people into your life. When dating anyone or becoming friends with anyone who has a different profession, a different life, it opens doors. All my friends here do such different creative things. It's so awesome.
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Secrets are never secure because they are always at risk of being found out.
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I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.
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There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
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We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.
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It's really hard to write about art in general. But it's exceptionally hard to fictionalize art and make work that isn't a parody, or is something that could withstand critique and exist in the art world as a valuable object, or a true piece.
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Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.
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I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.
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I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?
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It's hard for me to figure out where I want to be. But it's definitely in New York. I feel like New York throws different challenges at you and you can be more creative.
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Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.
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