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I think America would do anything through a drive-through. - Stephen Graham Jones
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I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer. - Stephen Graham Jones
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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
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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
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When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways. - Stephen Graham Jones
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Every time I lock my people in a spacecraft or land them on an asteroid, the blood wells up again, and I'm writing horror. Horror's my default setting. It's also where I prefer to write. - Stephen Graham Jones
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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
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You always want to read something that everybody says has gone too far, don't you? That's supposed to not just be charting our decline, but embodying it? - Stephen Graham Jones
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Jeans and sneakers are definitely best for the haunted house. They usually won't let you in with a mask, even. It makes sense. They need to be able to tell who the rubes are. And, sneakers are good because the ground's uneven, and you're running and falling and stepping on the slower of your friends. - Stephen Graham Jones
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Joe Lansdale is one of the few writers able to write in whatever genre or mode he wants on any particular day. How? He doesn't ask permission. He just steps in, out-writes everybody in the room. - Stephen Graham Jones
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Where 'Paranormal Activity' really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy - how it uses itself to authenticate itself, and thus furthers the pretence of being real. - Stephen Graham Jones
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Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction. - Stephen Graham Jones
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There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared. - Stephen Graham Jones
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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
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Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas. - Stephen Graham Jones
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