Peter Straub
Peter Straub
Peter Francis Straubis an American novelist and poet. His horror fiction has received numerous literary honors such as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 March 1943
CountryUnited States of America
life pain half
Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.
pms lunch average
An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.
dozen phrases copies
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.
dream clouds defeat
Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?
fiction want entity
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
brave risk lyrical
A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.
writing sentences
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
grateful thinking levels
However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.
here-and-now
Wolf! Right here and now!
sight shots
Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.
best-effort best-buddies buddy
Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.
get-better want sometimes
Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.
ambition writing fiction
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
views evil fiction
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.