"These days, there are a great many books……" — Peter Straub
"These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off."
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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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