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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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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

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.

Done, Happened, Worst

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

Appreciation, Connoisseur, Fear

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

Advance, Blessing, Boredom, Ifs, Planned

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

Average, Begins, Lunch, Pms, Working

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.

See, Shot, Shots, Sight, Wolves

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

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

Brave, Complex, Enormous, Lyrical, Risk, Risks

I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing, and although it was published, it is, after all this time, kind of an embarrassment.

Wish, Kind, Embarrassment, Although, Time

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

Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.

Dark, Fear, Right, Sometimes

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

Causes, Evil, Fiction, Orthodox, Views

Occasionally. . . what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

Back, Beginning, Everything, New Ways, See, Way

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

Common, Intellectual, Labor, Technique, Thinking

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

Believe, Death, Encountered, Too Much, Years

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 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

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.

Color, Dead, Miss, Percent, Smell, Thinking

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

I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back into my imagination and just let it work, and not question it and not fret about it.

Imagination, Let, Magic, Question, Wish, Work Out

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