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• When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

  Peter Straub

  Book, Men, Blue

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

  Peter Straub

  Writing, Ambition, Fiction

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.

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• 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.

  Peter Straub

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

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  Best Effort, Best Buddies, Despite

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.

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• 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

  Book, Self, Joy

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

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  Links, Mouths, Way

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• However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

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  Grateful, Thinking, Experience

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• 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

  Smart, Writing, Challenges

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• Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.

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  Sight, Shots

  Peter Straub (2015). “Shadowland”, p.140, Penguin

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• Wolf! Right here and now!

  Peter Straub

  Here And Now

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• I was once told by a very well-respected editor, "Category horror is about good vs. evil, that's all it is." And I thought, "That's why it's no good. That's why I find that stuff unreadable." One is looking for something that's a little more emotionally complex and nuanced.

  Peter Straub

  Evil, Horror

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.

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  Heart, Done, Walks

  Peter Straub (2015). “Shadowland”, p.21, Penguin

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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")

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  Cities, Wings, Quality

  FaceBook post by Peter Straub from Nov 19, 2015

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

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  Peter Straub (2011). “The Throat: Blue Rose Trilogy (3)”, p.7, Anchor

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

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  Brave, Risk, Lyrical

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• 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

  Book, Childhood, Experts

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June 1997.

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

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  Fiction, Want, Entity

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

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  Views, Evil, Fiction

  Peter Straub (2015). “Shadowland”, p.249, Penguin

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

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  Lying, Yield, Blue

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• I almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put things in. It's out of a desire to really show what's going on at all times, how things smell and look, as well as from the knowledge that I don't want to push things too quickly through to climax; if I do, it won't mean anything. Everything has to be earned, and it takes a lot of work to earn.

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  Writing, Mean, Smell

  FaceBook post by Peter Straub from Dec 02, 2012

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• 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.

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  Success, Real, Government

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

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  Average, Pms, Lunch

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• There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.

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  Phrases, Dozen, Copies

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• 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.

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  Taken, Events, Narrative

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

  Peter Straub

  Writing, Sentences

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