Peter Straub Quotes

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

Both 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' and my first novel, 'This One is Mine,' are pretty complex on a story level, and fun reads as a result.

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.

I read 'Sabella or The Blood Stone' by Tanith Lee, which was hugely influential to me. I love Tanith's writing. She's just really lyrical, beautiful use of language.

Fate loves the fearless.

N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

… at least as brave as the whites and more adventuresome

I've always been an adventurer, an explorer.

You've got to be brave.

It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.

We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado?

It is brave to be involved

Fly! There's a lot of sky out there for brave birds.

It took me a long time to be as brave in my personal life as I was in my professional life to be brave in love means opening yourself up to the possibility of heartbreak.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.

The writer has to be brave, I think.

-The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

I'm an adventurer. I believe in being bold and brave - and taking risks. Even if I'm afraid of something, I'll still have a go at it.