Peter Straub Quotes

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.

Peter Straub

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 2, 1943

Topics

FriendCopyThroughSomethingBeen

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

NatureProgressInactionDevelopment

It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

Jenny Lewis

FunnyMindSongStartThroughUp

You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.

Andrew Sean Greer

LifeLoveGoodGreatTimeStart

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

Matthew Green

AuthorityWaySeeThroughWhoNor

I tend to be an all-in-type of guy, so I get in a zone to write, and then that's all I do. I'll spend eight hours doing nothing but chasing that one song. That's what works for me.

Andy Grammer

MeSongDoingNothingWriteGuy

Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.

Stanley B. Prusiner

DataTrueIndependentSomethingEven

My only day off is the day I pitch.

Roger Clemens

DayOffOnlyPitch

I didn't actually have a prom. In Australia, we call them 'socials,' which is hilarious. I did always find them pretty awkward, because I went to an all-girls school.

Robin McLeavy

SchoolFindAustraliaAlwaysAwkward

I knew that Trump was ghastly. I knew I'd vote for Hillary if I had a vote.

Mary Beard

VoteKnewTrumpHadGhastlyHillary

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

Mike Colter

LifeWomenMenBackWantTalk

I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.

Mitch Hedberg

MorningNightIceUpLast Night

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

Douglas Coupland

SmallDreamSaidLotHaving

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