God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
Peter StraubOn gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.
Peter StraubI write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
Peter StraubMany fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
Peter StraubFrom a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ... A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or the momentary frisson of horror.
Peter Straub