These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shav…

- Linwood Barclay

When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a bo…

- Linwood Barclay

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 Suzu…

- Linwood Barclay

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 differe…

- Linwood Barclay

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 h…

- Linwood Barclay

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 particul…

- Linwood Barclay

I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a c…

- Linwood Barclay

Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there …

- Linwood Barclay

Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every day. If there's a bett…

- Linwood Barclay