Top 23 Quotes by Peter Straub

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

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.

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.

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

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

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.