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 Copy Share Image
“All my life I have been pursued by the black dogs of unaccountable gloom” — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“And this is the only really startling thing about the evil of the world: not that so much of it exists, but that nobody… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock. — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
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… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
“Though it's with you at every moment, it's always something of a surprise to discover that you can be at once alive and alone.” — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock. — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
“Darkness isn't the matter from which the Antichrist was formed, but intelligence. Foreknowledge.” — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
