Peter Straub Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

Peter Straub quotes and sayings page 2 (81 year old writer). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 23 we have for him.

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

“Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work.”

“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.”