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“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

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“I am well and truly messed up.”

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“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.”

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I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.

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“The dead boy floats by.”

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

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

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