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. Peter Straub More Quotes by Peter Straub More Quotes From Peter Straub 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. Peter Straub magicpieceslittles Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. Peter Straub entitywantfiction 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. Peter Straub childhoodexpertsbook A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off. Peter Straub lyricalriskbrave 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. Peter Straub smartchallengeswriting Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem? Peter Straub defeatdreamclouds Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better. Peter Straub linksmouthsway 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. Peter Straub painhalflife 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. Peter Straub bedtimeafternoonliquid If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom. Peter Straub boredomifsblessing I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there. Peter Straub Wolf! Right here and now! Peter Straub here-and-now 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. Peter Straub smellcolorthinking 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. Peter Straub selfjoybook I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear. Peter Straub connoisseurappreciation 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. Peter Straub narrativeeventstaken Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent. Peter Straub get-betterwantsometimes Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary. Peter Straub best-buddiesdespitebest-effort I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old. Peter Straub too-muchbelieveyears However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience. Peter Straub gratefulexperiencethinking
