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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
The day was a long bolt of gray cloth; endless.
— Peter Straub
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
— 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
(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
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
The mind was a trapit 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
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
David," I said, "no matter what my intentions are, everything I write winds up turning into fiction, including my letters to friends.
— 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
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
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
It's a good thing you write fiction. If you had to describe the real world, nobody would recognize it.
— 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
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
