Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up… — 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… — 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… — 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
