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Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
~ Andrew Pyper
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Contact
Defined
Fear
Horror
Human
Human Being
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Thing
Who
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I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.
~ Andrew Pyper
Among
Call
Canada
Community
Enjoy
I Love
Love
Me
Other
Scariest
Special
Thriller
Writer
Writers
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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.
~ Andrew Pyper
Before
Began
Cut
Doing
Hated
I Quit
Imagine
Just
Law
Life
My Life
Out
Quit
Spending
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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.
~ Andrew Pyper
About
Argument
Carried
Details
Dilemma
Few
Little
Lost
Me
Paradise
Persuasive
Protagonist
Read
Remembered
Satan
True
University
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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
Away
Contemplate
Fool
Foot
Just
Miles
Monsters
Only
Our
Outside
Peripheral
Set
Someplace
Than
Vision
Would
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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.
~ Andrew Pyper
Architecture
Because
Closed
Gothic
Isolation
Naturally
Often
Perhaps
Relative
Right
Roads
Stories
Toward
Town
Winter
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There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
~ Andrew Pyper
At Least One
Chaos
Dark
Desires
Human
Human Nature
Least
Live
Nature
Need
Place
Says
Something
Symbolic
Where
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What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than external ones, mapping out the mind as the home for scary things instead of the house at the end of the lane or lakeside campground or abandoned amusement park.
~ Andrew Pyper
Abandoned
Amusement
End
Exciting
External
Fiction
Forward
Go
Home
Horror
House
I See
Instead
Internal
Landscapes
Lane
Mind
More
Out
Park
Particularly
Prospect
Scary
See
Setting
Stories
Than
Things
Writing
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