Quote by Peter Orner Download Open image ““For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.”” — Peter Orner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good We'll do the best we know. We'll build our house and chop our wood And make our… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what we have is valued the most when it is most fragile, when it is most threatened.” — Ari Gunzburg Copy Share Image
“Food is the best substitute for everything, because it does not put up any resistance, but surrenders instantly.” — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
“and I am sure that food is much more generally entertaining than scenery. Do you give in, as Walt Whitman would say, that you… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Each seed of goodness we plant grows roots deep enough to hold the world steady.” — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
“Its true: Everything tastes best right out of the sea, the fields and the orchards.” — Susan Magsamen Copy Share Image
“People aren’t so good at being good to one another. We try hard enough, but something essential was left out in the making of… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“The lake is always east. East is always the lake. Anywhere else he's ever been he never knows where he is.” — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people. — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I feel like there are too many words in the world, and I think silence is so much more powerful than the glut of… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
People have to follow their own strangeness. The minute they start making their own vision of the world flattened out so everyone can read… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“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… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Chicago does not go to the world, the world comes to Chicago! Who needs New York? Who has taller buildings than our tall buildings?… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
We don't want emotion handed to us - that's not emotion. You have to build and come from the reader's soul. — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
