Peter StraubWolf! Right here and now!371Humor
Peter StraubOn 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.374Time
Peter StraubI write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.375Politics
Peter StraubInstead, 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 ev… ▶353Time
Peter StraubI had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear. ✨ PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear. Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.364Hope
Peter StraubIf I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.354Humanity
Peter StraubThere were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innoc… ▶323Reading
Peter StraubI liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there. ✨ Peter Straub (2011). The Throat: Blue Rose Trilogy (3), p.7, Anchor323Reading
Peter StraubTo 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. Wh… ▶323Humanity
Peter StraubFrom 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 gre… ▶323PoliticsReadingTime
Peter StraubWhen, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.357DeathReading
Peter StraubHowever, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.325LifeThought
Peter StraubEvery 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 … ▶271LifeTruth
Peter StraubThe world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people. ✨ Peter Straub (2011). The Throat: Blue Rose Trilogy (3), p.75, Anchor3510Humanity
Peter StraubYou'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart. ✨ Peter Straub (2015). Shadowland, p.21, Penguin338Love
Peter StraubI believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old. ✨ PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear. Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.<… ▶265Death
Peter StraubWhat would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open … ▶243ReflectionTime
Peter StraubI generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through. ✨ PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear. Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.3010Humanity
Peter StraubWhat 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. ✨ Peter Straub (2015)… ▶223Reading
Peter StraubFear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary. ✨ PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear. Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.201Death
Peter StraubEveryone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent. ✨ PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear. Interview with Paula Guran, www.dar… ▶268Time
Peter StraubThe actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.203ReadingTruth
Peter StraubNobody 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. ✨ Peter Straub… ▶203Sadness
Peter StraubIdeally, 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 lang… ▶225ReadingThought
Peter StraubIn 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 wit… ▶205ReadingTime
Peter StraubOccasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.184Thought
Peter StraubWolves and those who see them are shot on sight. ✨ Peter Straub (2015). Shadowland, p.140, Penguin162Death
Peter StraubI almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put things in. It's out of a desire to really show what's going on at… ▶2210ReadingTime
Peter StraubI instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. ✨ PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear. Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.… ▶2110Time
Peter StraubIt 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 y… ▶165LifeReadingSadness
