Andrew Pyper
Andrew Pyper
Andrew Pyperis a prize-winning Canadian author...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 January 1968
CountryCanada
hairs neck reader
If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
carried dilemma few persuasive remembered university
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.
architecture closed ghostly gothic naturally perhaps relative stories toward town
Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.
defined fear human
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
order understanding safe
We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.
doors people trying
Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.
community special canada
I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that.
writing hair necks
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
dark desire needs
Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
cutting law quitting
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.
feet vision fool
Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.
horror provoking contact
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
reader
To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.
interesting horror psychological
Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.