Victor LaValle : (3) " As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn’t seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs. " - Victor LaValle " I can’t inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I’d like to spare the world more author or professor novels. " - Victor LaValle " I spend lots of time on the Web, some of it even useful. " - Victor LaValle