Peter Straub

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. ↗

— Peter Straub

#began #fiction #full-time #i #instantly

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do. ↗

— Peter Straub

#henry #henry james #i #i write #james

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

— Peter Straub

#boredom #everything #expire #i #out

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

#apparent #authority #call #could #events

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. ↗

— Peter Straub

#eventually #feel #fiction #fiction writers #forms

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did. ↗

— Peter Straub

#did #enjoying #every #first #government

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. ↗

— Peter Straub

#again #because #better #characters #doubt

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

#appointment #back #bedtime #bit #days

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

— Peter Straub

#assume #blue #core #incorrect #lie

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. ↗

— Peter Straub

#alarmed #books #corrupt #eager #historical