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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 19 quotes by Linwood Barclay Linwood Barclay (born 1955) is an American-born Canadian author, noted as a novelist, humourist, and (former) columnist. His popular detective novels are bestsellers in Canada and internationally, beginning with No Time for Goodbye in 2007. He was born in Darien, Connecticut, son of Muriel and Everett Barclay. His father was a professional illustrator who moved his family to Canada in 1959 where he had accepted a job with William R. Templeton... Read full biography of Linwood Barclay → 1 2 Ctrl → It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop is a... → 0 Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David... → 0 My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get where they're going. This is... → 0 These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself... → 0 Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before... → 0 Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead... → 0 I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge. 0 We're half an hour from Toronto, which offers everything you could want from a city, and a couple of hours from beautiful vacation country. We... → 0 Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit.... → 0 Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters.... → 0 Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation... → 0 Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you... → 0 You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even if they don't know how to fix it, I... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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