Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control. — Christopher Bollen Cities Copy Share Image
I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me. — Christopher Bollen Cigarette Copy Share Image
Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me. — Christopher Bollen Art Copy Share Image
When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility. — Christopher Bollen Fence Copy Share Image
Today, MTV doesn't play videos anymore, but YouTube certainly has become the next MTV. — Christopher Bollen Mtv Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian. — Christopher Bollen Cinematographer Copy Share Image
Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history. — Christopher Bollen Age Copy Share Image
Secrets are never secure because they are always at risk of being found out. — Christopher Bollen Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
I'm ultimately not so much of a professor as a progresser. And I'm ready to move away from what I consider to… — Christopher Bollen Century Copy Share Image
There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first… — Christopher Bollen Books Copy Share Image
I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most… — Christopher Bollen Book Copy Share Image
Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come… — Christopher Bollen Aspect Copy Share Image
I don't think secrets are a bad thing. I think there's this idea that everything needs to be transparent in order for… — Christopher Bollen Bad thing Copy Share Image
I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping… — Christopher Bollen Book Copy Share Image
Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient. — Christopher Bollen Reputation Copy Share Image
I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself. — Christopher Bollen Asking Copy Share Image
I definitely don't take any of intrusions in my private life personally. You learn how to have a sense of humor pretty… — Christopher Bollen Care Copy Share Image
I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery… — Christopher Bollen Book Copy Share Image
I like to be alone, I mean, I really love to be alone more than anything else, and I don't really like… — Christopher Bollen Death Copy Share Image
It's really hard to write about art in general. But it's exceptionally hard to fictionalize art and make work that isn't a… — Christopher Bollen Art Copy Share Image
I really believe there is something in the nature of a democracy that naturally leads people to distrust the government, to assume… — Christopher Bollen Assuming Copy Share Image
“All close friendships are marked with competition. Our earliest tests are against our siblings and playmates, and some of that rivalry endures… — Christopher Bollen Close friends Copy Share Image
As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's… — Christopher Bollen Adore Copy Share Image
My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her… — Christopher Bollen Adventure Copy Share Image
There's a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I'm obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with… — Christopher Bollen Beautiful Copy Share Image
The Greeks really believed in history. They believed that the past had consequences and that you might be punished for the sins… — Christopher Bollen Consequence Copy Share Image
My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives. — Christopher Bollen Beehives Copy Share Image
Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably. — Christopher Bollen Failing Copy Share Image
The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them. — Christopher Bollen Death Copy Share Image
It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public. — Christopher Bollen Bedroom Copy Share Image
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