Top 23 Quotes by Peter Straub

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

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

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

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.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

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.

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.