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I had a connoisseur's ... appreciation of fear. — Peter Straub

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico. — Peter Straub

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking. — Peter Straub

The day was a long bolt of gray cloth; endless. — Peter Straub

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. — Peter Straub

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do. — Peter Straub

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people. — Peter Straub

Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent. — Peter Straub

Whatever his circumstances and surroundings, it was only a dead imagination that could call him a failure. — Peter Straub

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth. — Peter Straub

(Another writer once asked me why I wrote about "nebbishes." I told him I wanted to write about "the common man.") Sometimes I even — Peter Straub

She thought, instead, with longing of more books - of buying books - of slipping into a narrative of other people's lives. That was release. — Peter Straub

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old. — Peter Straub

Adventure is a nameless joy — Peter Straub

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. — Peter Straub

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. — Peter Straub

and rising extremely unlike Phoebus with the dawn to prepare the schoolhouse. — Peter Straub

The mind was a trap
it was a cage that slammed down over you. — Peter Straub

I'm being haunted," she blurted out.
"My dear," he cooed. "Turn yourself into a tourist attraction and charge admission. — Peter Straub

It didn't have a real ending. It just slipped backward when other things happened. — Peter Straub

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm. — Peter Straub

She thought it was too bad it didn't work the other way around, so you could get braver and smarter as you move up in years. But — Peter Straub

Sometimes it is right to fear the dark. — Peter Straub

What we do here is physiologically impossible. So we must train the body to accept the impossible, and then it will become possible. — Peter Straub

A long time ago, when we all lived in the forest and none of us lived anywhere else, — Peter Straub

David," I said, "no matter what my intentions are, everything I write winds up turning into fiction, including my letters to friends. — Peter Straub

Nothing is whole, not for too damned long. The world is half night. — Peter Straub

Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem? — Peter Straub

Wolf! Right here and now! — Peter Straub

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight. — Peter Straub

Each new book is a tremendous challenge. — Peter Straub

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom. — Peter Straub

I have been sometimes way too attracted by my own villains because in a way they seem to hold the secret to the heart of the narrative. — 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.
— Peter Straub

Her sense of humor went south about a minute after I tied her up. — Peter Straub

It was incomprehensible to Ricky that anyone could find Milburn boring: if you watched it closely for seventy years, you saw the century at work. — Peter Straub

Facing a wall when you write really aids your concentration. — Peter Straub

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl. — Nnedi Okorafor

Occasionally..what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way. — Peter Straub

She tasted what she had said and found it sour enough to be accurate. — Peter Straub

It's a good thing you write fiction. If you had to describe the real world, nobody would recognize it. — Peter Straub

And then a prince will come along and say the magic words and three ravens will give you the magic tokens and a fish will carry you on his back — Peter Straub

You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart. — Peter Straub

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience. — Peter Straub

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off. — Peter Straub

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary. — Peter Straub

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through. — Peter Straub

I don't shy from writing about incredibly unpleasant, distressing things. And I get a kick out of it I confess. I like doing that. — Peter Straub

But you do not reject the supernatural out of hand,' Sears said. 'I don't know if I do or do not,' I said. 'Like most people. — Peter Straub

In Classical Greek the word pathos was the same for both suffering and experience. Those Greeks knew a good joke when they heard one. — Peter Straub

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better. — Peter Straub

He was having, under trying circumstances, the best time he could, which is one definition of heroism; — Peter Straub

Sometimes, it seems like sighted people can hardly see anything. — Peter Straub