Quotes Peter Straub

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour...

As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while wr...

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New Yo...

Each new book is a tremendous challenge....

Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes...

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

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, a...

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for ...

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to ...

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

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing ...

I want to make discoveries, I want the book to evolve out of...

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe beca...

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

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narra...

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work...

Marriages was written at the rate of 500 words a day, withou...

Milwaukee was a fascinating place. When I was a kid, it was ...

Moving forward seems like part of the job to me, at least in...

My father soon began taking me, then my brothers and me, to ...

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of ...

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent ...

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon...

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the t...

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed thr...