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Peter Heller Quotes

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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.

Snow Book Horse Remember Drift High

Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make a sharp turn, and you don't know what's around the corner. It could be a waterfall, it could be a big pool. The narrative current carries you. You're surprised, and you're thrilled, and sometimes you're terrified.

River Me Writing You Pool Down

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.

Me Year Know Will Human Unjust

Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day.

Day Think Feel Loss Every Day Going

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.

Day Words Thought Easy Stop Write

I just love when the learning curve is steep. And I love being in nature, in the wild.

Nature Love Learning Wild Curve

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.

Life Work Faith Path You Go

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.

Job College Writing Perfect Living

Huntington Beach is like ground zero for surfers.

Beach Ground Zero Like Ground Zero

I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle.

You Way More Handle Like Approach

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.

Writing Journalism Person Oil First

I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.

Great Try Write Always Narrative

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