Peter S. Beagle Quotes


It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space--that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.


Citations

Beagle, Peter S. A Fine and Private Place. Viking Press, 1960.

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Peter S. Beagle
Peter S. Beagle
  • Born: April 20, 1939
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Screenwriter

Peter Soyer Beagle is an American novelist and screenwriter, especially of fantasy fiction. His best-known work is The Last Unicorn (1968), a fantasy novel he wrote in his twenties, which Locus subscribers voted the number five "All-Time Best Fantasy Novel" in 1987. During the last twenty-five years he has won several literary awards, including a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2011. He was named Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by SFWA in 2018.