Peter Heller Quotes

Peter Heller
Writer
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Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make a sharp turn, and you don't know what's around the corner. It could be a waterfall, it could be a big pool. The narrative current carries you. You're surprised, and you're thrilled, and sometimes you're terrified. Peter Heller
Me You Writing Sometimes Big Pool Down Waterfall Corner Carries Thrilled Could River Sharp Come Like Know Make Terrified Around Narrative Surprised Current Canyon Turn Paddling
The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a living writing fiction and poetry. Peter Heller
You Writing Living Tell One Thing Poetry Make Iowa How The One Thing Fiction Hard Thing
Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day. Peter Heller
Day Every Day Habitat Every Think Responsible About Feel Because Loss Going Warming Species Deeply Extinct
I'm fascinated by characters who are faced with big losses and have to put their lives back together again. Peter Heller
Together Big Back Characters Faced Put Losses Again Who Fascinated Lives
I remember the cover of this one L'Amour book showed a guy on horseback, leading a pack horse across a creek in the snow. Something about that cover - all I wanted to do was drift the high lonesome on horseback. Peter Heller
Book Remember Lonesome High About Something Drift Guy Horse Horseback Leading Cover Snow Wanted Pack Across Creek
I write a thousand words a day, and I always stop in the middle of a scene or thought, and it makes it easy to pick up on the next day. Peter Heller
Day Words Thought Thousand Thousand Words Easy Scene Write Pick Makes Always Up Stop Middle Next
Huntington Beach is like ground zero for surfers. Peter Heller
Beach Like Ground Ground Zero Zero
I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle. Peter Heller
You Approach Way More Like Handle Than Getting
I always wanted to be a writer. I was writing poetry when I was 6. Peter Heller
Writing Poetry Writer Always Wanted
My dad's wife, my stepmom, is a serious painter. My dad also paints. My mother is a brilliant sculptor, and her husband is a sculptor. Peter Heller
Mother Brilliant Wife Husband Also Sculptor Painter Paints Serious Dad Her
I wrote strong advocacy stories, and when I got to fiction, I made a deliberate effort to leave that behind and enter a country where I had no ax to grind, no advocacy issues that I was carrying with me. Peter Heller
Me Strong Made Country Enter Carrying Deliberate Had Wrote Advocacy Got Leave Issues Effort Behind Where Fiction Stories Grind Ax
The great thing about being young and dumb is that you don't know what you can't do. Peter Heller
Great You Young About Know Great Thing Dumb Being Thing
Yes, I love poetry, both to read and to write it. A first love. Peter Heller
Love First Both Poetry Write First Love Read Yes
New Zealand is weird. I mean, it does not seem of this earth, not to me. It really is like something made up. Peter Heller
Me Made Earth Seem Something Weird New Like Does Up New Zealand Mean Really Zealand

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