Quotes by Nick Antosca

Nick Antosca

Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.

Fiction

Tvs

Writing

Horror is so basic. You’d get an adrenaline jolt from watching your mom get gored by a woolly mammoth. A horror movie gives you the adrenaline without having to have your mom get gored.

Giving

Horror

Mom

I don’t really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around “forever” – but in a relatively niche way, like jazz and poetry, although probably more widely consumed than jazz and poetry since it’s fundamentally a narrative form. And I think that’s important and places like Word Riot and ‘The New York Tyrant’ and ‘n+1’ will be responsible for keeping it alive.

New York

Thinking

Tyrants

I don’t think I’ve ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I stopped and I lost a lot of weight because my appetite was less. I’m not skinny now – I’m spindly. I eat an extremely simple diet – mostly salmon, avocado, feta cheese, chicken, eggs, peanut butter, blueberries, and quinoa.

Simple

Thinking

Years

I encourage all novelists to move to TV right now, that is the way to go. I was living in New York working at a bank as a day job about seven years ago. I was writing novels at night and decided, “Wow, there’s so much great TV, and they’re telling the complex, interesting, psychologically nuanced stories that, as a novelist, you dream of telling. And it’s a healthy, exciting, thriving medium – that’s where I need to be.”

Dream

Moving

Writing

I feel like having an actual taxidermy-ed mammal would get gross, like its hair would get dirty and stuff.

Dirty

Hair

Taxidermy

I love horror movies. I consider myself a horror author, sometimes.

Horror

Sometimes

I own some bugs encased in lucite or something. I also have a big cat’s eye – a fake one – made for a taxidermist. I really like animals.

Animal

Cat

Eye

I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I’ll lift idly while I’m watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder.

Exercise

Hands

Hurt

I think the reason the stories are briskly paced, when they are, is that I like story. I like stories where things happen and there are surprises and reversals, in addition to vivid characters and a memorable voice. So those are the kinds of stories I try to write. And it turns out that’s pretty much the only kind of writing that works for TV. It’s a medium that just devours story, demands surprises and reversals. So my sensibility is suited to TV storytelling, at least as we think of it today.

Character

Memorable

Writing

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Animal

Cat

Character

Coyotes

Culture

Dirty

Dream

Exercise

Eye

Feelings

Fiction

Focus

Girlfriend

Giving

Guilt

Guy

Hair

Hands

Horror

Hurt

Ideas

Landscape

Los Angeles

Lucky

Memorable

Men

Mom

Moving

New York

Office

Opportunity

People

Renaissance

Sexy

Shields

Simple

Sleep

Sometimes

Stories

Taxidermy

Thinking

Tired

Trying

Tvs

Tyrants

Weekend

Writing

Years

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Quotes by Nick Antosca

Nick Antosca

Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.

Horror is so basic. You’d get an adrenaline jolt from watching your mom get gored by a woolly mammoth. A horror movie gives you the adrenaline without having to have your mom get gored.

I feel like having an actual taxidermy-ed mammal would get gross, like its hair would get dirty and stuff.

I love horror movies. I consider myself a horror author, sometimes.

I own some bugs encased in lucite or something. I also have a big cat’s eye – a fake one – made for a taxidermist. I really like animals.

I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I’ll lift idly while I’m watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder.

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