Thing Evil Quotes by Andrew Pyper

“All my life I have been pursued by the black dogs of unaccountable gloom”

— Andrew Pyper

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

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

“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

“I am well and truly messed up.”

— Andrew Pyper

Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

— Andrew Pyper

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

“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

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

“The dead boy floats by.”

— Andrew Pyper

If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

— Andrew Pyper

“Darkness isn't the matter from which the Antichrist was formed, but intelligence. Foreknowledge.”

— Andrew Pyper

I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I…

— Andrew Pyper

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

— Andrew Pyper

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