Andrew Pyper famous quotes

03-18-2025

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

#Order #Understanding #Needs
Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.
-- Andrew Pyper

#Interesting #Horror #Psychological
To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.
-- Andrew Pyper

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

#Horror #Contact #Provoking
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

#Feet #Vision #Monsters
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

#Cutting #Law #Quitting
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

#Dark #Desire #Needs
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
-- Andrew Pyper

#Writing #Hair #Necks
I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that.
-- Andrew Pyper

#Community #Special #Canada
Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.
-- Andrew Pyper

#Doors #People #Trying
Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.
-- Andrew Pyper

#Loneliness #Fighting #Names

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