117 Quotes by Peter Heller

I have two younger sisters, and it was a family full of creativity.

I always wanted to be a writer. I was writing poetry when I was 6.

My dad's wife, my stepmom, is a serious painter. My dad also paints. My mother is a brilliant sculptor, and her husband is a sculptor.

Loss is universal. I've lost grandparents that I dearly adored, lost animals that were like brothers to me. Many of us have gone through terrible breakups.

The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a living writing fiction and poetry.

I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures.

Writing 'Dog Stars' was coming home. My spirit just sang. It's what I wanted to do my whole life.

I write a lot of environmental stories.

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.