Quotes by Peter Straub

Peter Straub

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

Brave

Lyrical

Risk

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

Average

Lunch

Pms

Because dead people are just like you and me, they still want things. They look at us all the time, and they miss being alive. We have taste and color and smell and feelings, and they don’t have any of those things. They stare at us, they don’t miss anything. They really see what’s going on, and we hardly ever really see that. We’re too busy thinking about things and getting everything wrong, so we miss ninety percent of what’s happening.

Color

Smell

Thinking

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

Links

Mouths

Way

Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?

Clouds

Defeat

Dream

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

Book

Challenges

New Books

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him – and that if he’s lucky!

Lucky

Ordinary World

Writing

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

Get Better

Sometimes

Want

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

Best Buddies

Best Effort

Despite

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. … A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or the momentary frisson of horror.

Emotional

Eye

Goal

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Adventure

Afternoon

Ambition

Appreciation

Average

Bedtime

Believe

Best Buddies

Best Effort

Blessing

Blue

Book

Boredom

Brave

Challenges

Character

Childhood

Cities

Clouds

Color

Connoisseur

Copies

Dark

Defeat

Despite

Done

Doubt

Dozen

Dream

Embarrassment

Emotional

Entity

Events

Evil

Experience

Experts

Eye

Fate

Fiction

Get Better

Ghost

Goal

Government

Grateful

Half

Happened

Heart

Here And Now

Horror

Ifs

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Quotes by Peter Straub

Peter Straub

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

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

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

Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him – and that if he’s lucky!

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

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

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