"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd……" — Peter Straub

"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."

— 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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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. — Jane Addams
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may… — Pope Benedict XVI
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes. — Buffalo Bill
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. — Aeschylus
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. — John Bolton
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are… — John Bolton
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. — George W. Bush
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a… — George W. Bush
I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways. — Jeb Bush
We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal… — David Cameron
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating.… — Albert Camus

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