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 you…

- Linwood Barclay

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. It's el…

- 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

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

Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digest…

- Linwood Barclay

Sometimes, it`s easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It`s like there`s less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn`t know you.

- Linwood Barclay

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

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.

- 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