“Missing someone feels like hunger. An insatiable emptiness right at the core of yourself.” — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
“All my life I have been pursued by the black dogs of unaccountable gloom” — Andrew Pyper Life Copy Share Image
“If it ain’t broke, don’t let some stupid fucker fuck it up sort of thing.” — 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 Doors Copy Share Image
Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical. — Andrew Pyper Explicitly Copy Share Image
“Don’t be crude, Professor. Profanity is one contest you will not win with me.” — Andrew Pyper Profanity Copy Share Image
“Darkness isn't the matter from which the Antichrist was formed, but intelligence. Foreknowledge.” — Andrew Pyper Antichrist 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… — Andrew Pyper Every moment Copy Share Image
I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that. — Andrew Pyper Call me 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… — Andrew Pyper Chaos Copy Share Image
“And what do we have? A profound if sexless intimacy of a kind I’ve never known with either man or woman since… — Andrew Pyper Children 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… — Andrew Pyper Evil 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… — Andrew Pyper Chaos Copy Share Image
“It's strange. Hearing you say my name." "I can say it again if you'd like." "No, I'll remember just fine.” — Andrew Pyper Remember Copy Share Image
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 Being 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… — Andrew Pyper Affliction Copy Share Image
Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter -… — Andrew Pyper Architecture Copy Share Image
I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit… — Andrew Pyper Cutting 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 Books 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 Among Copy Share Image
I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit… — Andrew Pyper Before Copy Share Image
“How do I shoot?” “Your finger through there. Feel that? But you only pull if you’re sure that everything’s right.” “Why?” “Because… — Andrew Pyper Finger Copy Share Image
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it. — Andrew Pyper Contact Copy Share Image
“I've seen the photos," he said. "Photos are never the same as the real thing," I said.” — Andrew Pyper Photography Copy Share Image
“We need to talk." she says. "The four most dreaded words in the history of marriage.” — Andrew Pyper History Copy Share Image
We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works. — Andrew Pyper Fear Copy Share Image
“Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?”… — Andrew Pyper Love Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, monsters are real,” Tess said, rolling over, leaving me alone with the ladybug staring up at me. “Even if they don’t… — Andrew Pyper Leaving Me Alone Copy Share Image
Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set… — Andrew Pyper Away Copy Share Image
“David. She is you. So you have to prove your love for her every goddamn minute of every goddamn day. Anything less… — Andrew Pyper David Copy Share Image
I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but… — Andrew Pyper About Copy Share Image
What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal… — Andrew Pyper Abandoned Copy Share Image
“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that… — Andrew Pyper Science Copy Share Image
“I’ve never been able to figure out what you’re so scared of, but there’s something in you that’s got you backed into… — Andrew Pyper Scared Copy Share Image
“Fuck you. You think this is a scene in some indie drama you take my wife to in the Village, some pack… — Andrew Pyper Lies Copy Share Image
