Writing ‘Dog Stars’ was coming home. My spirit just sang. It’s what I wanted to do my whole life. Peter Heller Read Quote
Writing nonfiction, you’re responsible to posterity, to history, to other people because the events happened, and you feel responsible to record them as they happened. Peter Heller Read Quote
With fiction, I felt like I could bring to bear my full imagination, my entire heart, and so you feel very vulnerable. It’s not your physical life, but it’s everything else, so it felt like a lot was at stake. Peter Heller Read Quote
There’s always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I’m so physically exuberant, it was extra hard to sit still at the desk and put in the hours that you need to put in to write. Peter Heller Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I wrote strong advocacy stories, and when I got to fiction, I made a deliberate effort to leave that behind and enter a country where I had no ax to grind, no advocacy issues that I was carrying with me. Peter Heller Read Quote
The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book. Peter Heller Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
