Peter Straub Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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

  Travel, Book, Adventure

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

  Peter Straub

  Book, Challenges, New Books

  "Peter Straub: Connoisseur Of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June 1997.

• 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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