--- title: "1 Thought Kids Quotes By Peter Orner" description: "1 Thought Kids quotes by Peter Orner. Plus more from Peter Orner and more Thought Kids sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcd/peter-orner-12957_eight_everybody-doesn-t-matter-who-you-are-esc_1610958.png" --- > [Everybody, doesn't matter who you are, escapes time. And for me, nothing is stranger than the thought that kids are just kids. Nobody is just anything. Whether you are eight or eighty, you've got your own unique take on how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/everybody-doesn-t-matter-who-you-are-escapes-time-and-for-me-nothing/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcd/peter-orner-12957_eight_everybody-doesn-t-matter-who-you-are-esc_1610958.png) ## More by Peter Orner > [“The lake is always east. East is always the lake. Anywhere else he's ever been he never knows where he is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/the-lake-is-always-east-east-is-always-the-lake-anywhere-else-he-s/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) > [“For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/for-we-are-like-olives-only-when-we-are-crushed-do-we-yield-what-is/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) > [Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/rarely-is-the-pain-of-losing-someone-expressed-with-such-directness/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) > [I think some writers should wait for something to say.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/i-think-some-writers-should-wait-for-something-to-say/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) > [I've spent so many years living in one place and imaging another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/i-ve-spent-so-many-years-living-in-one-place-and-imaging-another/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) > [I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/i-m-pretty-tight-i-rewrite-in-some-cases-70-to-80-times-before-i-show/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) > [I feel like there are too many words in the world, and I think silence is so much more powerful than the glut of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/i-feel-like-there-are-too-many-words-in-the-world-and-i-think-silence/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) > [I usually have a location and then I put the character there. I love place names. I think I'm tricking myself by being so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/i-usually-have-a-location-and-then-i-put-the-character-there-i-love/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) > [People have to follow their own strangeness. The minute they start making their own vision of the world flattened out so everyone can read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/people-have-to-follow-their-own-strangeness-the-minute-they-start/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) > [I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/i-revise-and-revise-and-revise-i-m-not-even-sure-revise-is-the-right/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) > [“Considering the multitude of things that happen in any one person’s life, it seems fairly unlikely that those little boys remembered the incident for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/considering-the-multitude-of-things-that-happen-in-any-one-person-s/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) > [“Chicago does not go to the world, the world comes to Chicago! Who needs New York? Who has taller buildings than our tall buildings?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/chicago-does-not-go-to-the-world-the-world-comes-to-chicago-who-needs/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) > [We don't want emotion handed to us - that's not emotion. You have to build and come from the reader's soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/we-don-t-want-emotion-handed-to-us-that-s-not-emotion-you-have-to/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) > [I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/i-think-anything-we-do-eating-walking-down-the-street-online-shopping/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) > [“Leo wondered what unknown sin they must have committed in some previous life to deserve this. The answer came the same way their feet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-orner/leo-wondered-what-unknown-sin-they-must-have-committed-in-some/) [Peter Orner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-orner/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thought-kids/peter-orner/#itemlist", "name": "1 Thought Kids Quotes By Peter Orner", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Everybody, doesn't matter who you are, escapes time. And for me, nothing is stranger than the thought that kids are just kids. Nobody is just anything. 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