What did Peter Straub mean by: I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there. - Peter Straub Author Copy
+ I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Peter Straub, Ambitious, Fiction, Writing, 0 - Peter Straub Author
+ If I planned everything out in advance, I’d expire of boredom. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Peter Straub, Blessing, Boredom, 0 - Peter Straub Author
+ I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Peter Straub, Fate, Intuition, Wade, 0 - Peter Straub Author
+ Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Peter Straub, Best Effort, Despite, 0 - Peter Straub Author
+ Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it’s all you can do to stay consistent. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Peter Straub, Get Better, 0 - Peter Straub Author
+ The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Peter Straub, Ghost, 0 - Peter Straub Author
+ A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Peter Straub, Brave, Risk, 0 - Peter Straub Author
+ You’ll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Peter Straub, Heart, Walks, 0 - Peter Straub Author
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
