All Linwood Barclay Quotes
- Sometimes, it`s easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It`s like there`s less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn`t know you. Doesn
- 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 spectacular… All
- Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as… Among
- I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge. Course
- My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist. Full
- 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 rides… Across
- Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to… Best
- 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 day.… Better
- Facebook, from what I can tell, is the virtual equivalent of dropping into the homes of several million people, all of whom say at the… All
- Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just… Any
- I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late… Age
- It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop… Altogether
- 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 going.… Ahead
- Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my… Always Comes
- Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a… Authors
- These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself… Cutting
- When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald,… Book
- Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders,… Banging