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I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old. ↗

— Peter Straub

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I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through. ↗

— Peter Straub

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

— Peter Straub

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

— Peter Straub

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

— Peter Straub

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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. ↗

— Peter Straub

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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

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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

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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

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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

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