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
done worst happened
What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing...
here-and-now
Wolf! Right here and now!
heart done walks
You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.
sight shots
Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.
thinking color smell
Because dead people are just like you and me, they still want things. They look at us all the time, and they miss being alive. We have taste and color and smell and feelings, and they don’t have any of those things. They stare at us, they don’t miss anything. They really see what’s going on, and we hardly ever really see that. We’re too busy thinking about things and getting everything wrong, so we miss ninety percent of what’s happening.
taken narrative events
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.
views evil fiction
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
appreciation connoisseur
I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.
book self joy
Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.
dark sometimes
Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.
fate intuition wade
I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
way new-ways
Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.
book men blue
When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.
book adventure boys
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.