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Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

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
Dark, Desire, Needs

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

Andrew Pyper
Horror, Contact, Provoking

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

Andrew Pyper
Cutting, Law, Quitting

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Andrew Pyper
Reader
Andrew Pyper (2013). “The Demonologist: A Novel”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

Andrew Pyper
Feet, Vision, Monsters

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

Andrew Pyper
Writing, Hair, Necks

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

Andrew Pyper
Doors, People, Trying
Andrew Pyper (2013). “Lost Girls: A Novel”, p.431, Simon and Schuster

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

Andrew Pyper
Community, Special, Canada

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

Andrew Pyper
Order, Understanding, Needs

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

Andrew Pyper
Interesting, Horror, Psychological

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 different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.

Andrew Pyper
Loneliness, Fighting, Names
Andrew Pyper (2014). “The Demonologist: A Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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