We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror’s different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please. Stephen Graham Jones Read Quote
Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction. Stephen Graham Jones Read Quote
With slow-moving zombies, what always comes at stake is our humanity. Stephen Graham Jones Read Quote
The whole ‘starting with stories, ending with novels’ thing, it’s probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it. Stephen Graham Jones Read Quote
People shouldn’t go broke making a haunted house. Or, we should pay for our enjoyment, definitely. Stephen Graham Jones Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison – happy endings aren’t at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them. Stephen Graham Jones Read Quote