American - Writer | March 2, 1943 -
Each new book is a tremendous challenge.
Peter Straub
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Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.
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I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
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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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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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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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Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
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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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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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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.
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Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.
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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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