In violence there is often the quality of yearning...

In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")

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Peter Straub

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him - and that if he's lucky!

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Peter Straub

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

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Peter Straub

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.

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Peter Straub

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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Peter Straub

In violence there is often ...

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