Top 23 Quotes by Peter Straub

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.

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

There 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 innocent youth.

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

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

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.

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

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

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

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