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Peter Straub Biography

Peter Francis Straub (born March 2, 1943) is 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.

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To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe. A piece of the universe?A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.

Everything, Know, Littles, Magic, Pieces

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him - and that if he's lucky!

Acknowledge, Confinement, Facts, Life, Ordinary World, Writing

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.

Afternoon, Back, Bedtime, Days, Liquid, Narcotic

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

People, World, Ghost, Ghosts, Full

Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?

Clouds, Defeat, Dream, Poem

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.

Break, Half, Life, Pain, Vileness

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.

Kelly, Link, Links, Mouth, Mouths, Way

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

Book, Childhood, Experts, Pick, Trauma

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

Came, Come, Liked, Place

In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")

Cities, Present, Quality, Useless, Wings, Yearning

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

Fate, Intuition, Wade, See, Instinct

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.

Character, Doubt, Knows, Men, Nobody, Surprised

With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These stories are smart, challenging, ripe with feeling, expansive in every way: Horror as it should be writ, and as only the best and most expressive can write it.

Challenges, Challenging, Confidently, Expressive, Smart, Writing

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.

Events, Indeterminacy, Narrative, Representation, Taken

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

Advance, Blessing, Boredom, Ifs, Planned

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

Common, Intellectual, Labor, Technique, Thinking

What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.

Jumping, Ordinary World, Pigs, Split, Wearing

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

Blue, Lying, Murders, Status, Yield

Wolf! Right here and now!

Here And Now, Right, Wolf

I always think about the books I'm doing in pretty much the same way. I'm simply trying to write that particular novel as well as that particular novel can be written. I want to listen to what it is telling me, trying to figure out what it wants to do as much as what I want to do with it. There's a negotiation that's constant and ongoing between me and the material I'm working with, because I'm trying to listen to it.

Book, Listen, Negotiation, Ongoing, Thinking, Writing

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