Top 41 Quotes by Stephen Graham Jones

About Stephen Graham Jones

These are some quotes by American author Stephen Graham Jones Author, who was born in 1972.

You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains.

You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains.

Stephen Graham Jones

If the main character's not in jeopardy - physical, psychological, emotional, whatever - then you don't have any tension, and you don't have a story.

If the main character's not in jeopardy - physical, psychological, emotional, whatever - then you don't have any tension, and you don't have a story.

Stephen Graham Jones

The slasher film is such a neat, self-contained genre.

The slasher film is such a neat, self-contained genre.

Stephen Graham Jones

People shouldn't go broke making a haunted house. Or, we should pay for our enjoyment, definitely.

People shouldn't go broke making a haunted house. Or, we should pay for our enjoyment, definitely.

Stephen Graham Jones

The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.

The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.

Stephen Graham Jones

The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.

The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.

Stephen Graham Jones

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.

Stephen Graham Jones

I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.

I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.

Stephen Graham Jones

I think America would do anything through a drive-through.

I think America would do anything through a drive-through.

Stephen Graham Jones

I see so, so many novels written by people who are obviously short story writers. What they end up doing, it's going the full distance, covering three hundred pages or so, but they do it by just writing five or six long stories, and weaving them together, making them interdependent.

Stephen Graham Jones

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