Christopher Bollen Quotes
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In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.
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Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.
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There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
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Both my parents were big readers.
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My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.…
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I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery books along with…
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I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.
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My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.
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I feel that I'm solid at description.
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It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of…
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I've never even done a residency.
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Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.
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I had been going out to Orient for several years.
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I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.
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I was a very scared child.
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My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I…
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The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask…
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To this day I still watch tons of horror.
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Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.
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One day I want to write a full-on horror book.
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