"Each new book is a tremendous challenge." — Peter Straub

"Each new book is a tremendous challenge."

— Peter Straub

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42 Quotes by Peter Straub

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There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed…
I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a…
Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.
Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and…
I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of…
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a…
Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.
Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

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I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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