I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by saying something …

- Tony Burgess

I am a feral person. I have no bank account. I am unemployable. I own nothing. I lose my shoes sometimes when I go out. It sounds like I'm making a c…

- Tony Burgess

My fear, as a writer, is that I am a curiosity. That I can only bring you this peculiar condition from far away, from outside, and if you look at it …

- Tony Burgess

As a kid, I couldn't articulate it but I sought out things that could. At first it was horror films - extreme panic and terror, grotesque and maniaca…

- Tony Burgess

I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion. I, of course, never achie…

- Tony Burgess

The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.

- Tony Burgess

A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten what you thi…

- Tony Burgess

I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying to make it work …

- Tony Burgess