"Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that……" — Peter Straub
"Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity."
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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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More Entity Quotes
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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
— Frederic Bastiat
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In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that…
— Christopher Alexander
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But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe…
— Benjamin Carson
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When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the…
— John Henrik Clarke
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It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's…
— Tori Amos
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The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea…
— Ayn Rand
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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach…
— Manly Hall
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Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in…
— George Henry Lewes
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Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate…
— Erich Fromm
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If we dwell in spirit, or Soul, we are living in happiness, for Soul is a happy entity. It is…
— Paul Twitchell
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