Peter Straub Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

AdventureYouthMysteryInnocent

I was always interested in trying to find how different genres would affect the lyrics that I'd written. Salsa is where most of my songs have been recorded, the genre of salsa. It's very frenetic, fast-paced. And I felt that the lyrics sometimes were being lost.

Ruben Blades

TryingFindLostSometimesAlways

We British and Americans have never been conquered and occupied by the Germans, or forced to make the choice between defiance and collaboration, or haunted by the choices, evasions and moral ambiguities that only a defeated and occupied country can feel.

Michael Korda

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If you are brown, black, Asian, or anything other than an English-speaking, highly-trained technician, the Republican Party doesn't want you here.

Luis Gutierrez

BlackYouPartyWantRepublican

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Lord Byron

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I get my competitiveness from my mom.

Jay S. Walker

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You have to acknowledge a problem exists before you can actually go about finding a solution.

Demi Moore

ProblemSolutionFindingYouGo

I think, sometimes, actors having a holistic view of what they're in can be overrated. Especially when you're playing somebody as narcissistic and self-involved as Ernest Hemingway, it doesn't really matter what else is in the script.

Corey Stoll

ThinkViewYouSometimesMatter

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

Brian Lumley

AmazingMeVoiceFindLostMy Own

There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.

Bobby Thomson

BaseballWarNeverUpPlayingJust

The ward designs were co-created by myself and Lauren K. Cannon. She read how they were described in 'The Warded Man,' and we had long discussions about what sources to draw from for the symbols, drawing inspiration from Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Sanskrit.

Peter V. Brett

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As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.

Peter Diamandis

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One great building does not make a great city.

Thomas Heatherwick

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