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Top 25 Linwood Barclay Quotes (2025 Update)

Linwood Barclay Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “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 on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!”

2. “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 on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “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 call CanLit. It’s elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.”

3. “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 call CanLit. It’s elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “He was pretty good at Family Feud. It was his favorite game show because, unlike, say, Jeopardy! or Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, you didn’t actually have to know anything, you just had to be able to guess what people thought the answer was.”

4. “He was pretty good at Family Feud. It was his favorite game show because, unlike, say, Jeopardy! or Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, you didn’t actually have to know anything, you just had to be able to guess what people thought the answer was.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “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 something you have to pedal really fast when you’re on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401.”

5. “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 something you have to pedal really fast when you’re on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “She cried herself to sleep, and I held her until she stopped. I rolled over and pushed my face into the pillow. I figured if I could muffle my own crying, I would not wake her.”

6. “She cried herself to sleep, and I held her until she stopped. I rolled over and pushed my face into the pillow. I figured if I could muffle my own crying, I would not wake her.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “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 is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There’s no room for courtesy or chivalry here.”

7. “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 is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There’s no room for courtesy or chivalry here.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “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, did – crank out a book a year. The only problem – and it was a considerable one – was that I stank.”

8. “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, did – crank out a book a year. The only problem – and it was a considerable one – was that I stank.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “Once I have a hook I think has potential – enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.”

9. “Once I have a hook I think has potential – enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “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, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about.”

10. “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, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “When you leave the spoons to dry like this without turning them over, the water ends up leaving a mark,” he’d say to my mother, holding up one of the offensive items of cutlery.”

11. “When you leave the spoons to dry like this without turning them over, the water ends up leaving a mark,” he’d say to my mother, holding up one of the offensive items of cutlery.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “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 fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can’t go around running red lights if there aren’t any red lights to run.”

12. “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 fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can’t go around running red lights if there aren’t any red lights to run.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “You think, if you’re dying a little each day, how does life manage to stretch out so long.”

13. “You think, if you’re dying a little each day, how does life manage to stretch out so long.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “And the road to hell is paved with good intentions...”

14. “And the road to hell is paved with good intentions...”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “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. If there’s a better school for would-be novelists, I don’t know what it is.”

15. “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. If there’s a better school for would-be novelists, I don’t know what it is.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “You didn’t need brains to hold office; you only needed votes.”

16. “You didn’t need brains to hold office; you only needed votes.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “Technology allowed us to share our photos with more people now than ever before, but where would these captured moments in time be in twenty years? On some outdated piece of hardware at the bottom of a landfill site? What happened to memories you couldn’t hold between your thumb and forefinger?”

17. “Technology allowed us to share our photos with more people now than ever before, but where would these captured moments in time be in twenty years? On some outdated piece of hardware at the bottom of a landfill site? What happened to memories you couldn’t hold between your thumb and forefinger?”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “It occurred to me that with all of today’s technologies, there were now more ways than ever to know with abosolute certainty that no one wanted to get in touch with me.”

18. “It occurred to me that with all of today’s technologies, there were now more ways than ever to know with abosolute certainty that no one wanted to get in touch with me.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “How we’re all strangers to one another, how we often know the least about those we’re closest to.”

19. “How we’re all strangers to one another, how we often know the least about those we’re closest to.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people – things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.”

20. “These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people – things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “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 roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure.”

21. “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 roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “My life isn’t much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.”

22. “My life isn’t much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.”

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

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

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “All the places my mind took me were places I did not want to go.”

24. “All the places my mind took me were places I did not want to go.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “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 situation, a ’what if.”

25. “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 situation, a ’what if.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “Maybe this was what marriage was, Gilbert mused. Unrelenting unhappiness, but at least you had someone to talk to.”

26. “Maybe this was what marriage was, Gilbert mused. Unrelenting unhappiness, but at least you had someone to talk to.”

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Linwood Barclay Quote: “Heartbreak, she believed, was worse than just about any disease you could think of.”

27. “Heartbreak, she believed, was worse than just about any disease you could think of.”

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