"I liked the place I came from. But……" — Peter Straub
"I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there."
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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…
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I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
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Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a…
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Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.
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Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and…
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I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.
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God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
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Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of…
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I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
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When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a…
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Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.
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Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for…
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to…
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
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Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people…
— David Axelrod
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I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976.…
— Michele Bachmann
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Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
— Kevin Bacon
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What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm…
— Erykah Badu
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My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I…
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