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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

Being Contact Defined Fear Horror Human Human Being Me 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

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