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
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.
lying character self
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition – irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.
sadness self skills
It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.
charge felt knew reassuring soon
As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work.
children emerged ether puerto york
Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.
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Marriages was written at the rate of 500 words a day, without any sort of plan, outline or guidelines beyond the simple desire to write a novel.
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Milwaukee was a fascinating place. When I was a kid, it was basically a blue-collar, factory kind of town, lots of bars, lots of fights.
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My father soon began taking me, then my brothers and me, to our local public library, which allowed a maximum withdrawal of six books at a time.
book evolve impose miss pattern
I want to make discoveries, I want the book to evolve out of itself, because if I try to impose my own pattern on it I'll miss everything.
ambition writing fiction
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
lying blue yield
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
life pain half
Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.
afternoon liquid bedtime
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.
blessing boredom ifs
If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.