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No one said a word; it was as if they were waiting for me to retract my question. Jan's hand found mine and held it.
"What the hell is this? A wake?" My grandpa came out of the house carrying a tray of buns. -- Bentley Little
Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him. -- Bentley Little
I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have much choice. This is the way my mind works. -- Bentley Little
Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations. -- Bentley Little
Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it. -- Bentley Little
Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered. -- Bentley Little
His shoulders slumped as though he were a human-shaped balloon that had just lost half of its air. -- Bentley Little
This can't be constitutional," he said. "This is America, damn it. We still have freedom of speech here. -- Bentley Little
Life is short. Eternity is long. -- Bentley Little
A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories. -- Bentley Little
New Year's has never been a real holiday to me anyway. There's no gifts, no feast, just ... bad TV. -- Bentley Little
Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can
plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable. -- Bentley Little
I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell
and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime. -- Bentley Little
An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career. -- Bentley Little
People with daddy issues can always spot a fellow traveler. -- Bentley Little
Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things. -- Bentley Little
I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever. -- Bentley Little
The dead don't think of the living," Ethan said. "That part of their life is over. -- Bentley Little
Her last call, at midnight, had been the worst. "I'll pull your cock out of your asshole," she'd said, and for some reason her voice at that moment had reminded him of his mother's. -- Bentley Little
If you ask me, people are unnecessarily gloomy about the end of the world. -- Bentley Little
Her only comfort was to curse each searing day with a creative lexicon she didn't know she possessed. -- Bentley Little
His father's punishments were driven by disappointment, partly in the boy, mostly in himself. -- Bentley Little
In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot. -- Bentley Little
There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness. -- Bentley Little
He could wait, because hatred is patient. -- Bentley Little
Anyone in horror's path is irrevocably altered. -- Bentley Little
The cool breeze that ruffled her hair felt like something more than wind. -- Bentley Little
After the first draft, I sat back and thought to myself, "where did that come from?" That thought was quickly followed by "what is wrong with you? -- Bentley Little
He seemed born to find flaws in everything, a task at which he excelled and in which he seemed to delight. -- Bentley Little
Remember: not all that is fiction is fictional, and not all that is true is transparent. -- Bentley Little
They lived in a Wikipedia world, where knowledge was no longer required and only the ability to access it mattered. -- Bentley Little
I think the internet is a great marketing tool
but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels. -- Bentley Little
If there's any mystery to me at all, it's probably due to the fact that I'm not online and don't go to conventions
which means that I'm probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it. -- Bentley Little