“found Rolly in his office, sitting at his computer, staring at something on the monitor. He pointed at the screen. “They want more testing. Pretty soon, we won’t have any time to teach them anything. We’ll just test them from… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
We're half an hour from Toronto, which offers everything you could want from a city, and a couple of hours from beautiful vacation country.… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
“I don't subscribe much to the belief that things happen for a reason, that there's some higher power at the controls, directing all of… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook,… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist. — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge. — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get where they're… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
“If being an asshole was all it took to get yourself killed, you and I would have been dead long ago.” — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image