Stephen Graham Jones

“I'm all right," I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too.”

— Stephen Graham Jones

The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple…

— Stephen Graham Jones

“If there's any better place to get stoned than a rolling box full of pastry, then they didn't have the keys for…

— Stephen Graham Jones

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one…

— Stephen Graham Jones

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

— Stephen Graham Jones

This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then…

— Stephen Graham Jones

I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't…

— Stephen Graham Jones

When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three…

— Stephen Graham Jones

“And, if I'm to be honest here, yes, I did indeed stop trying, finally. But the body breathes whether you want it…

— Stephen Graham Jones

It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be…

— Stephen Graham Jones

It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to…

— Stephen Graham Jones

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

— Stephen Graham Jones

Angels, demons, sex. Heaven, hell, war. Blood and royalty, history and magic, fire and ice. And a story you cannot put down.…

— Stephen Graham Jones

There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you…

— Stephen Graham Jones

The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as…

— Stephen Graham Jones

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.

— Stephen Graham Jones

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

— Stephen Graham Jones

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when…

— Stephen Graham Jones

I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending…

— Stephen Graham Jones

This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer…

— Stephen Graham Jones