Quotes by Peter Straub

About Peter Straub:

Peter Francis Straub is an American author and poet. His horror fiction has received numerous literary honors such as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award.
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Death is only frightening from the near side.

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...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.

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Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fi...

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It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already. That's right--you heard me: dead again already. I mean, come on. How screwed up is your life (after- or otherwise) when you find yourself needing p...

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You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.

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I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.

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Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?" Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.

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Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

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Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.

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Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves in relation to them. You know what a monster is, young shade? Power. Power and choice. Monsters make...

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Epic sex?" I sputtered. "By what standards, precisely, is sex judged to be epic?" "And tons and tons of mortal simps like you used as pawns." Bob sighed happily, ignoring my question. "There are no words. It was like the Lord of the Rings and All My ...

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He did not recognize himself either. He was a totally new being, bald, covered with grease and blood, pink and blue eyed: he was his own baby...He was a great fat chuckling baby, and he shat and peed in his filthy trousers and kept driving.

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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 despai...

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

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I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

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There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.

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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.

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When, 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.

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Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.

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

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Author Bio

  • NamePeter Straub
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornMarch 2, 1943
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist