With fiction, I felt like I could bring to bear my full imagination, my entire heart, and so you feel very vulnerable.… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not know it... Waiting for your real life to begin. Maybe the… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm so physically exuberant, it was extra… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
There is no one to tell this to and yet it seems very important to get this right. The reality and what… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Surfing is a life path. You have to really commit... You have to let go and have faith that it's gonna work… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb, the dead never do ...” — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights,… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“So I wonder what it is this need to tell. To animate somehow the deathly stillness of the profoundest beauty. Breathe life… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Writing 'Dog Stars' was coming home. My spirit just sang. It's what I wanted to do my whole life. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt like… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me that the death of his grazing land hurt him more, incomparably more than the death of the human race. I… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup and starts chattering away like it's… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“We have traveled. Now you will be the path I will walk I will walk Over you.” — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Well, I think that’s sort of like Eve biting the apple. You were talking about Genesis. I think it’s like that, the crow is… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Because that's what it turned into: in front of a fine painting a viewer stopped looking and started watching, watching is more specific, watching… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“The pleasure almost split me like a baking stuffed tomato. Like my heart swelled and my skin got thinner and thinner in the heat… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.” — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in the Gulf,… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“we can proceed in our lives just as easily from love to love as from loss to loss. A good thing to remember in… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“It's early spring, some late or early hour with Orion toppling backward onto the serrated edge of the mountains and not crying out but… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
