"There have been times when I reread -……" — Peter Straub
"There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite."
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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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