Quotes from Paul G. Tremblay

Math was always my best subject growing up.

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.

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.

Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in.

Independent horror movies have really stepped up the game, and hopefully mainstream Hollywood will follow suit.

My first book deal was for two Mark Genevich novels. I hadn't planned on writing a second Genevich novel, but I was contracted to do so, and so there I was being introduced as a crime writer.

As an adult, I've learned to cope and pull the plug on the worst what-ifs before my mind takes me to a place from which I can't return.

The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.

Marshmallows are kind of weird. I'm not a huge fan. I mean, they're fun when they get molten and melty at the end of a stick, but I always burn my mouth because I'm not all that smart or patient.

Whenever you bring reality TV into the mix, it's only a matter of time before, whatever fiction you come up with, it'll become real.

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.

Getting into graduate school was pure luck.

I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction.

I want folks to take horror seriously.

Pop country definitely frightens me, how popular it is.

Chance, choice, and consequence are fundamental parts of existence and perfect fodder for a horror story - or any story, for that matter, that asks, 'How do you live through this? How does anyone live through this?'

My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.

'A Head Full of Ghosts' was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer.

What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings.

'Martha Marcy May Marlene' is excellent. I adore how the film is both grounded in realism and, at the same time, it has an ethereal, nightmarish atmosphere.

I do remember dancing in my living room when my short story 'The Laughing Man Meets Little Cat' won a Chizine fiction contest in 2002.

I'm certainly no hardcore backpacker, but I do enjoy being out in the woods for a few hours.

The response to 'A Head Full of Ghosts' has been amazing and thrilling. I'd be lying if I said I don't feel a little extra pressure trying to follow it up.

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.