35 Quotes by Andrew Pyper

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

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

Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.

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.

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

I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.

Grief has a colour. It has other characteristics, I know now, collectively forming a personality of sorts. An antagonizing figure that arrives in your life and refuses to leave or sit anywhere but next to you or stop whispering the name of the departed in your ear.

There’s no reality but versions of reality.

I am well and truly messed up.