Peter Straub
Peter Straub
Peter Francis Straubis an American novelist and poet. His horror fiction has received numerous literary honors such as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 March 1943
CountryUnited States of America
character men doubt
Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.
I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.
thinking intellectual technique
Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.
cities wings quality
In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")
done worst happened
What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing...
here-and-now
Wolf! Right here and now!
heart done walks
You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.
sight shots
Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.
thinking color smell
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.
taken narrative events
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.
views evil fiction
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
appreciation connoisseur
I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.
book self joy
Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.
dark sometimes
Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.