I always think about the books I'm doing in pretty much the same way. I'm simply trying to write that particular novel as well as that particular novel can be written. I want to listen to what it is telling me, trying to figure out what it wants to do as much as what I want to do with it. There's a negotiation that's constant and ongoing between me and the material I'm working with, because I'm trying to listen to it.
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
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
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… - Peter Straub
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…
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 thin… - Peter Straub
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 thin…
I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back i… - Peter Straub
I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back i…
Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking. - Peter Straub
Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.
Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem? - Peter Straub
Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?
The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people. - Peter Straub
The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinemen… - Peter Straub
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinemen…
Sometimes it is right to fear the dark. - Peter Straub
Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.
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