“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature. Everyone wants to see children treated badly. So that … well, so that when they triumph… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“It's strange to sleep. Sleep is a mysterious thing even in the simplest of people. When you're sleepy, you seem to be getting sick, losing energy, losing clear thought, lying down out of weakness. Then you succumb to the weakness and what happens next resembles death. And then you dream. You abide in a world whose rules are hidden even… — Tony Burgess Copy Share
“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“And now, no matter what I thought I had done or why I did it, it has become completely untrue because of what I… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion. I, of… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me. — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
My fear, as a writer, is that I am a curiosity. That I can only bring you this peculiar condition from far away, from… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“They stay like this, in silence, both aware that they have created something together. Defiance. A pushing back of a darkness that no one… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
As a kid, I couldn't articulate it but I sought out things that could. At first it was horror films - extreme panic and… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“It’s my job really, to help you, my reader, in accepting things as real that aren’t. Most books try to get you to accept… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying to make… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
