Christopher Bollen Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.”
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“Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.”
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“To this day I still watch tons of horror.”
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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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“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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“I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.”
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“I had been going out to Orient for several years.”
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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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“I feel that I'm solid at description.”
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“It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.”
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“Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.”
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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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“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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“We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.”
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“In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.”
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“Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.”
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“There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.”
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“My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.”
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“I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery books along with really frightening books, like one on Jack the Ripper. She also had a poster of a shark in the closet which also terrified me at the time.”
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“There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.”
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“There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.”
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“I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.”
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“I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.”
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“One day I want to write a full-on horror book.”
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“There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.”
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“You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.”
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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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