Christopher Bollen Quotes

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• In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.
• Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.
• There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
• Both my parents were big readers.
• 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.…
• 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…
• I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.
• My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.
• I feel that I'm solid at description.
• 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…
• I've never even done a residency.
• Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.
• I had been going out to Orient for several years.
• I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.
• I was a very scared child.
• 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…
• 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…
• To this day I still watch tons of horror.
• Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.
• One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

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