Quotes by Bentley Little - Page 1

Life is short. Eternity is long.
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Life Is
Life Is Short
Long
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Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.
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Men
Giving
Names
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In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.
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Good Life
Happy Life
Real
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Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.
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Life
Fiction
Real
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I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.
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Desire
Forever
Vampire
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Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.
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Evil
Matter
Murder
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I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.
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Jobs
Thinking
Writing
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An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career.
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Careers
Mystery
Shut Up
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Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.
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Novelists
Real
Writing
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Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.
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Life
Real
World
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I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have much choice. This is the way my mind works.
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Choices
Darkness
Writing
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There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness.
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Darkness
Light
Shadow
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Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.
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Hope
Men
Wife
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A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories.
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Loss
Memories
Sadness
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If there's any mystery to me at all, it's probably due to the fact that I'm not online and don't go to conventions--which means that I'm probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it.
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Facts
Fans
Mean
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I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell--and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.
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Jobs
Book
Writing
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The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer. Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume!
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Jobs
Two
Years
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Like most authors, I'm a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access, I would waste countless hours looking up things about myself, writing fake posts about how great I am and arguing with people who don't like my work. It saves me a lot of time and frustration to just stay out of the loop.
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Frustration
Internet Access
Writing
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Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my main characters ordinary, average guys, it helps readers identify with their problems. It also helps ground the supernatural events that follow in a recognizable reality and perhaps gives some of my wilder scenarios a little verisimilitude.
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Character
Reality
Thinking
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There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature - and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away. Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That’s one big horror story. And it’s the most popular book on the planet.
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Book
Ghost Stories
Horror Stories
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I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough. I know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror. As far as I'm concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that's the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.
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Fighting
Real
Thinking
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