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Peter Straub Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Feel Want Single Fiction Many

Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.

Life You Go Done Want Dead

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

Meister Eckhart

Work Great Will Never Inward Puny

We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'

Job Talking Year You House Too Much

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen.

Mom Proud Happen Make Wanted Ballet

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

Love Music Style I Can Play Rock

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

American Human Democrat

I started writing because I saw such a huge lack of complex stories about the inner city.

City Writing Complex Started Saw

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

Best Fight You Go Want Roles

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

Life Mother Lie My Life You Lesson

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog.

William Shatner

Dog Country Never Without Been Made

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

Writing Book Think Doing Chapter

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.

Hope Book Year Long More First

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