“I think there should be tribunals for social cruelty as there are for physical assault. Calculated cuts in the first degree. Snobicide… — Peter Heller Social Cruelty Copy Share Image
The great thing about being young and dumb is that you don't know what you can't do. — Peter Heller About 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
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 Hard 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 Dead Copy Share Image
“What it is about painting, how it can hit people exactly like music, and hit people so differently.” — Peter Heller Music Copy Share Image
I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures. — Peter Heller About Copy Share Image
“They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for fish, why didn’t they breed them to live longer, to live as long… — Peter Heller Animal Copy Share Image
“Dusk was moving over the water with a stillness that turned half the world to glass. The wall of mountains had gone… — Peter Heller Dark water 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… — Peter Heller Beginner Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction, you're responsible to posterity, to history, to other people because the events happened, and you feel responsible to record them… — Peter Heller Events 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 Desperate Copy Share Image
My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. My mom… — Peter Heller Dad Copy Share Image
I remember the cover of this one L'Amour book showed a guy on horseback, leading a pack horse across a creek in… — Peter Heller Books Copy Share Image
“How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don’t even welcome… — Peter Heller Clear 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… — Peter Heller Bull Copy Share Image
“She was very easy to please, because she took joy in the smallest things, but exacting, too, because that small thing must… — Peter Heller Face value 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… — Peter Heller Artist Copy Share Image
“I woke sometime in the middle of the night and lay in the hammock, wriggled my foot out of the sleeping bag… — Peter Heller Believing Copy Share Image
Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway. — Peter Heller Fiction Copy Share Image
“Watch anyone enter their arena of real mastery and you see it, the growing bigger than themselves. Love that.” — Peter Heller Bigger Copy Share Image
“If we all knew what was coming, maybe we wouldn’t even stick around for it. Time present and time future.” — Peter Heller Future Copy Share Image
I write a thousand words a day, and I always stop in the middle of a scene or thought, and it makes… — Peter Heller Day Copy Share Image
“A road trip frees the mind, revitalizes the spirit, and infuses the body with Dr Pepper and teriyaki jerky.” — Peter Heller Dr pepper Copy Share Image
New Zealand is weird. I mean, it does not seem of this earth, not to me. It really is like something made… — Peter Heller Australia Copy Share Image
I just love when the learning curve is steep. And I love being in nature, in the wild. — Peter Heller I love 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 Faith 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 Collapsed Copy Share Image
A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings… — Peter Heller About Copy Share Image
I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle. — Peter Heller Approach Copy Share Image
“I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.” — Peter Heller Artist Copy Share Image
“She also confessed that in an odd way she was happier here than she'd ever been. Even with all the loss. Happier… — Peter Heller Happiness Copy Share Image
That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the… — Peter Heller Believe 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 Coming home Copy Share Image
Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day. — Peter Heller Day Copy Share Image
My dad's wife, my stepmom, is a serious painter. My dad also paints. My mother is a brilliant sculptor, and her husband… — Peter Heller Brilliant 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… — Peter Heller Business Copy Share Image
“our job as citizens, apparently, is the pursuit of happiness. Something I always have to gird myself for. I’d much rather just… — Peter Heller Citizens Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book. — Peter Heller Book 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 Hard Copy Share Image
