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12 quotes by Andrew Pyper

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Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

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I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.

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I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

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If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

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Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

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Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

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There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

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To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

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We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

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I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but... →

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Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended... →

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What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than... →

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