Lake Quote by Peter Orner

“For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.”

— 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…

— Peter Orner

I think some writers should wait for something to say.

— Peter Orner

I've spent so many years living in one place and imaging another.

— Peter Orner

I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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?…

— 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.

— Peter Orner