Brian Keene Quotes

#1. Jesus Christ-"
"Is Not here right now," the man in black replied,"and even if he were, he could not save you.

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#2. Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book.

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#3. We're all scared. Might as well be scared together.

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#4. Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

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#5. 'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set on an island inhabited by a sub-human race of creatures? Readers have often asked me to consider turning the short story into a full-length novel. So I did.

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#6. Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

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#7. We are many. Our number is greater than the stars. We are more than infinity.

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#8. In late 2001, I contributed a short story called 'Castaways' to an anthology called 'In Laymon's Terms,' which was a tribute to Richard Laymon, who had passed away earlier that year.

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#9. I've been a fan of 'The Defenders' since childhood, and Devil Slayer was always one of my favorite members of the team - especially during J.M. DeMatteis' wonderful run on the series.

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#10. I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.

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#11. 'Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it.

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#12. Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

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#13. When you're writing fulltime like I am, writing to pay the bills and keep a roof over your head and food on the table, you can't afford to have writer's block.

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#14. Keep that hate alive in your heart, lad. It'll warm you when nothing else will.

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#15. Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

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#16. What a crazy way to be buried, he thought as he hunted. Get your body burned up and then poured into a box that looked like a library book, like your relatives could check you out and take you home for a couple of weeks. Would there be an overdue penalty if they were late bringing back the dead?

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#17. Save it fucker. I'm gonna slit you open and gut you like a fish and pull out your insides. I'm going to show you the black stuff inside your belly, and then I'm gonna make you eat it.

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