Peter Straub Quotes & Sayings

“The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.”

“Each new book is a tremendous challenge.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”