Linwood Barclay

We're half an hour from Toronto, which offers everything you could want from a city, and a couple of hours from beautiful…

— Linwood Barclay

Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to…

— Linwood Barclay

“I don't subscribe much to the belief that things happen for a reason, that there's some higher power at the controls, directing…

— Linwood Barclay

Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow!…

— Linwood Barclay

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

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with…

— Linwood Barclay

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

— Linwood Barclay

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.

— Linwood Barclay

My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get…

— Linwood Barclay

Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I…

— Linwood Barclay

“If being an asshole was all it took to get yourself killed, you and I would have been dead long ago.”

— Linwood Barclay

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what…

— Linwood Barclay

“It occurred to me that with all of today's technologies, there were now more ways than ever to know with abosolute certainty…

— Linwood Barclay

“found Rolly in his office, sitting at his computer, staring at something on the monitor. He pointed at the screen. “They want…

— Linwood Barclay

“She cried herself to sleep, and I held her until she stopped. I rolled over and pushed my face into the pillow.…

— Linwood Barclay

Facebook, from what I can tell, is the virtual equivalent of dropping into the homes of several million people, all of whom…

— Linwood Barclay

When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime…

— Linwood Barclay

You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even…

— Linwood Barclay

“just got these”

— Linwood Barclay

I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then,…

— Linwood Barclay

“Dear Anyone: This is a letter from one anyone to another anyone, no names required, because nobody really knows anyway. Names don't…

— Linwood Barclay

It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But…

— Linwood Barclay

Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead…

— Linwood Barclay

Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or…

— Linwood Barclay

These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse…

— Linwood Barclay