“I’m not sure of anything,” she said. “Which is almost wonderful.” — Peter Heller Freedom Copy Share Image
I have two younger sisters, and it was a family full of creativity. — Peter Heller Creativity Copy Share Image
“Pete half smiled. It was his way of giving vigorous applause.” — Peter Heller Applause Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to love by simply not being an ass? I don't think so. But it goes a long way to… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Pa smiled an inward smile. He always took delight in the pure souls of the earth, wherever they shone.” — Peter Heller Nature 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 Iowa Copy Share Image
“I open it so he has no choice. At the crack of the top and the sound of the fizz he winces… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Tapas is a fancy way of saying a morsel of food for a fuckload of money, but I didn’t mind, I was… — Peter Heller Money Copy Share Image
“When we are most scared is the time to summon our clearest concentration and move forward, not back.” — Peter Heller Concentration Copy Share Image
“You can pull a goat off into the field, but a memory you can only haul into the sun and hope it… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles… — Peter Heller Big sur Copy Share Image
I don't know if we will really have a doomsday for human beings, but if we did, to me, it wouldn't be… — Peter Heller Doomsday Copy Share Image
“Still. No resolution ever. None. Nothing decided, nothing finished. The Dipper wheels back into place. Just one turn. One turn of the… — Peter Heller Collapse Copy Share Image
“He's getting old. I don't count the years. I don't multiply by seven. They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for… — Peter Heller Animal Copy Share Image
“I once had a book on the stars but now I don't. My memory serves but not stellar, ha. So I made… — Peter Heller Astronomy 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 Bears Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that’s all you need. A good man with a fishing tip, a wave. A woman once in a while.… — Peter Heller Fish 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
Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Missing what most of the time? The babbling faceless agora, the fame, the parties, the pop of flash bulbs? The lovers, the… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“What I realized standing there, is that this dark yearning is what happens when we idealize anything: the form of a woman,… — Peter Heller Desire Copy Share Image
“I had painted a lot of landscapes, had stood before many while they burned their remote beauty into my skin, but had… — Peter Heller Artist Copy Share Image
“The albatross hit the top and canted her soft belly to the storm, and made a screaming banked peel-out downwind and over… — Peter Heller Albatross 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 Copy Share Image
“What I can play is blues. She was never that into blues. I can salve with Lightning and Cotton, BB and Clapton… — Peter Heller Blues Copy Share Image
“Never know how you feel about someone until they die and come back.” — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by characters who are faced with big losses and have to put their lives back together again. — 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 College Copy Share Image
“I would be moving in the cold of the settling evening, the few stars in the chasm overhead, the only way I… — Peter Heller Cold Copy Share Image
“We have traveled. Now you will be the path I will walk I will walk Over you.” — Peter Heller Journey 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… — Peter Heller Books Copy Share Image
