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The only real failure to me is if you don't finish something.
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Finish
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I wrote my first book in fifth grade. It was about a dog that goes to outer space and is an ambassador for Earth.
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Fifth
Outer Space
Ambassador
Grade
Outer
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So what did influence 'Bird Box?' Well, I've had a crush on Medusa since about 1985. Maybe the book is an ode to her.
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Bird
Crush
Ode
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I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.
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Blank
Pages
Silence
Facing
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I wonder if some artists determine their entire identity through that which they create. How dangerous! Imagine if they were to stop creating!
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Determine
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I didn't sleep much in the summer of '98. Was getting ready to move to New York City. Start a band. That was a madman's summer. A summer of change.
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New York
Band
New York City
Ready
Summer
Start
York
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It's refreshing, if you ask me, to have lengthy conversations with clear, brilliant minds about books, art, and what ought to happen next and how. I love it.
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Brilliant
Lengthy
Ought
Refreshing
Love Art Me
Conversations
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I have ten thousand memories of myself writing alone in basements, bizarre servant quarters, cemeteries, deserted fountains, the band van, and other awkward settings.
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Awkward
Bizarre
Deserted
Memories
Quarters
Servant
Settings
Thousand
Cemeteries
Van
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I do know that I love placing my stories in Michigan because, if you collect all the ideas, it turns the whole state into one kaleidoscopic, frightening place. Michigan as house of horrors.
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Frightening
Michigan
Turns
Collect
Horrors
Placing
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You can't even look outside because everything's so crazy, especially in America. And I live in Detroit! There's the economy, and the fact you can't even open your door any more without going nuts.
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Detroit
Nuts
Your Look Live
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I'm okay with the path that I'm on, but it's fascinating to think, 'I could've been a gay guy in Key West. I could be working at an insurance company in Lansing. But somehow, this is what's happening.'
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Fascinating
Okay
Insurance
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Most apocalyptic fiction makes it very clear that it's the end of the world. But 'Bird Box' hasn't convinced me of that. Is 'Bird Box' instead a suburban neurotic nightmare? I don't think so. But it's fun to consider.
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Bird
Convinced
End Of The World
Neurotic
Nightmare
World Me Fun
Suburban
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I didn't get a formal introduction to horror until right about the age of 12, when my uncle showed me 'Twilight Zone: The Movie.' When you're 12 years old, and you see that - oh, God. I devoured as many horror movies and novels as possible.
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Formal
Introduction
Twilight
Zone
Devoured
Horror Movies
Oh God
Uncle
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I was seven years old when 'Creepshow' came out, and I'm guessing I was around 10 when I saw it for the first time on VHS. The opening theme reminds me that there are five stories to be told, all so different, and the process of telling a scary story is a dark, glorious trip.
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Glorious
Guessing
Opening
Scary
Time Me Process
Reminds
Trip
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Truth is, I love all the horror guys and girls: Gord Rollo, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Ramsey Campbell, Dan Simmons, Thomas Ligotti. Each one of them brings something wonderfully different and, because I love the genre, I love those who love the genre, too. And I hope the genre ends up loving me back.
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Genre
Truth Is
Brings
Campbell
Dan
Each One
Jackson
Shirley
Thomas
Wonderfully
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After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Dostoevsky. And that classics train dropped me off at 'Dracula.' Halfway through it, I understood I'd never be going back, never 'leaving' the genre again. Since then, I've been on a fairly strict horror diet.
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Diet
Genre
Halfway
Leaving
Proust
Strict
Woolf
Me Never Real
Fairly
Classics
Dracula
Dropped
Faulkner
Hemingway
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I never actually sought out an agent or a publishing house. A friend of mine named David Simmer got wind of what I was doing, and he sent one of my books to a literary lawyer in Los Angeles. He loved it, and he sent it to other people, including an agent, and he picked me up, and that's how 'Bird Box' got to where it is now.
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Bird
Los Angeles
Publishing
Publishing House
Wind
Agent
Angeles
David
Named
Literary
Los
Picked
Sent
Simmer
Sought
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I think some horror authors are trying to scare you, but with me, I'm as scared as the reader is of the story. I've always been that way, since watching the 'Twilight Zone' movie - watching 'Firestarter' when my parents were out, or sneaking out to watch 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at a friend's house because I couldn't watch it at my house.
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Nightmare
Scare
Twilight
Zone
Always Me Street
Authors
Sneaking
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