There is no one to tell this to and yet it seems very important to get this right. The reality and what it is like to escape it. That even now it is sometimes too beautiful to bear. Peter Heller More Quotes by Peter Heller More Quotes From Peter Heller 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 you hard poetry writing Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day. Peter Heller every-day feel day think I'm fascinated by characters who are faced with big losses and have to put their lives back together again. Peter Heller big back who together Surfing is a life path. You have to really commit... You have to let go and have faith that it's gonna work out when you take off. Peter Heller you faith work life Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup and starts chattering away like it's a cocktail party, completely ignores all the finely-tuned protocols of surf that have developed over decades. Peter Heller cocktail over like party A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan. Peter Heller write environmental guy strong I just love when the learning curve is steep. And I love being in nature, in the wild. Peter Heller wild learning nature love I remember the cover of this one L'Amour book showed a guy on horseback, leading a pack horse across a creek in the snow. Something about that cover - all I wanted to do was drift the high lonesome on horseback. Peter Heller horse snow remember book When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt like the perfect job. Peter Heller job college perfect writing I write a thousand words a day, and I always stop in the middle of a scene or thought, and it makes it easy to pick up on the next day. Peter Heller words day thought easy I don't know if we will really have a doomsday for human beings, but if we did, to me, it wouldn't be an unjust outcome, given how many species we're taking with us every year. Peter Heller will year know me Huntington Beach is like ground zero for surfers. Peter Heller ground like zero beach I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle. Peter Heller more like you way All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in the Gulf, it's all first person there. Peter Heller person journalism oil writing I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative. Peter Heller just try great always I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to make a living as a poet. Peter Heller know you living tough My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. My mom raised the kids and was a scholarship coordinator at a school. More importantly, dad was a writer and my mom an artist. Peter Heller dad time men school I have two younger sisters, and it was a family full of creativity. Peter Heller full creativity family two I love to fish almost more than anything. Peter Heller fish anything more love I always wanted to be a writer. I was writing poetry when I was 6. Peter Heller writer always poetry writing
