Peter Straub Quotes

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• I almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put things in. It's…
• My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I…
• An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.
• Wolf! Right here and now!
• I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.
• Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.
• From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony.…
• To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational…
• Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.
• What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the…
• In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present…
• What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the…
• The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.
• It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive…
• You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.
• Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
• Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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