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Peter Straub Quotes
An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm. - Peter Straub Quotes
As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work. - Peter Straub Quotes
Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico. - Peter Straub Quotes
Each new book is a tremendous challenge. - Peter Straub Quotes
Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes its all you can do to stay consistent. - Peter Straub Quotes
Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary. - Peter Straub Quotes
However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience. - Peter Straub Quotes
I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old. - Peter Straub Quotes
I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through. - Peter Straub Quotes
I had a connoisseurs... appreciation of fear. - Peter Straub Quotes
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. - Peter Straub Quotes
I want to make discoveries, I want the book to evolve out of itself, because if I try to impose my own pattern on it Ill miss everything. - Peter Straub Quotes
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do. - Peter Straub Quotes
If I planned everything out in advance, Id expire of boredom. - Peter Straub Quotes
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question. - Peter Straub Quotes
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. - Peter Straub Quotes
Marriages was written at the rate of 500 words a day, without any sort of plan, outline or guidelines beyond the simple desire to write a novel. - Peter Straub Quotes
Milwaukee was a fascinating place. When I was a kid, it was basically a blue-collar, factory kind of town, lots of bars, lots of fights. - Peter Straub Quotes
My father soon began taking me, then my brothers and me, to our local public library, which allowed a maximum withdrawal of six books at a time. - Peter Straub Quotes
My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghans Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did. - Peter Straub Quotes
Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa. - Peter Straub Quotes
On gym days, I dont get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit. - Peter Straub Quotes
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth. - Peter Straub Quotes
There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because Id sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite. - Peter Straub Quotes
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth. - Peter Straub Quotes
These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off. - Peter Straub Quotes
When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before. - Peter Straub Quotes
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