Christopher Bollen Quotes - Page 2

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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 constantly watched horror movies.

  Christopher Bollen

  Parent, Watches, Tvs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.

  Christopher Bollen

  Character, Talking, Brain

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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• I was a very scared child.

  Christopher Bollen

  Children, Scared

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel that I'm solid at description.

  Christopher Bollen

  Description, Feels

  Source: www.salon.com

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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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  New York, Doors, Half

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had been going out to Orient for several years.

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  Years, Going Out

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.

  Christopher Bollen

  Writing, Giving, Laughing

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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• I've never even done a residency.

  Christopher Bollen

  Done, Residency

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.

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  Writing, Vacation, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 it didn't operate inside the usual conventions of the horror genre in the way that I could accept. I can accept horny teenager counselors being murdered at camp. But I couldn't accept the derangement of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, which was that anyone could be murdered at any moment - whole families, with no build-up music and no meaning. It terrified me.

  Christopher Bollen

  Teenager, Horror Genre, Horny

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To this day I still watch tons of horror.

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  Watches, Horror, Stills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.

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  Country, Loss, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

  Christopher Bollen

  Book, Writing, One Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 puzzle.

  Christopher Bollen

  Writing, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

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  Motivation, Games, Tennis

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very conservative mode of storytelling. Usually it's the greedy, climbing, new-money slimeball who wants to take from the aristocracy.

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  Thinking, Climbing, Murder Mysteries

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 [1974] movie poster on his bedroom walls.

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  Wall, Kids, Murder

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade.

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  Obsessed, Sixth Grade, Grades

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's really hard to write about art in general. But it's exceptionally hard to fictionalize art and make work that isn't a parody, or is something that could withstand critique and exist in the art world as a valuable object, or a true piece.

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  Art, Writing, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's always fun to welcome new people into your life. When dating anyone or becoming friends with anyone who has a different profession, a different life, it opens doors. All my friends here do such different creative things. It's so awesome.

  Christopher Bollen

  Fun, People, Dating

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first page exactly what's going to happen.

  Christopher Bollen

  Interest

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People aren't doing whodunits anymore.

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  People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

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  Safety, Trying, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are certain moments where artwork might seem like it's part of someone's career - if you really know the art world - , but I did my best to prevent that overlap.

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  Art, World, Moments

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Secrets are never secure because they are always at risk of being found out.

  Christopher Bollen

  Risk, Secret

  Source: therumpus.net

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