I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

- Andrew Pyper

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

- Andrew Pyper

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

- Andrew Pyper

Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

- Andrew Pyper

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

- Andrew Pyper

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

- Andrew Pyper

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

- Andrew Pyper

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

- Andrew Pyper

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

- Andrew Pyper