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" Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway. "
Peter Heller
Time
Our Time
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" Huntington Beach is like ground zero for surfers. "
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" The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a living writing fiction and poetry. "
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" 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. "
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" I love to fish almost more than anything. "
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" Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day. "
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" I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures. "
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" 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. "
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" I just love when the learning curve is steep. And I love being in nature, in the wild. "
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" The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book. "
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" I have two younger sisters, and it was a family full of creativity. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan. "
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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. "
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" Yes, I love poetry, both to read and to write it. A first love. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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