Christopher Bollen Quotes
- There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating…
- You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the…
- Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game…
- I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1990] at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out of me. Because…
- I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade.
- I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express…
- As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very…
- I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From…
- There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.
- The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.
- I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.
- I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that…
- I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?
- I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.
- We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.
- There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.
- There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.
- There's a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I'm obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with a chainsaw. And…