Peter Straub Quotes

If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.

It's going back to old school, the way it was done and I'm finding out there is something different, a little interesting. There is something just a little fresh about it because I haven't seen it done like that in a little while. I'm embracing it, you know.

We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.

Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.

For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.

Approach every day as if it's a new world, because it IS.

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.

What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.

The challenge in scoring a sequel is, how do you not get bored? The only way around that one is to go, "Okay, let's throw everything out that we had before and let's just see it as an autonomous movie, and let's just start again."

We packed up all the worldly possessions we could carry with us and took the next flight to Hawaii from Washington. It took just about every cent my family had to our name just to pay the plane fare. When we arrived, we had about $15 left among us. We were really in pitiful shape. But we were together, and we were alive, and this was all that mattered.

Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

It feels like each time we are beginning at the beginning, in a really exciting way.

An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.

Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.

...New Beginning to the same old story

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.

Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.

We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning

To change the way you see things is already to change things themselves.

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?