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I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle.
- Peter Heller
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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
#Faith
#Go
#Life
#Path
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Huntington Beach is like ground zero for surfers.
- Peter Heller
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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
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#Living
#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
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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.
- Peter Heller
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#Wife
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
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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.
- Peter Heller
#Human
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#Me
#Us
#Will
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
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#Journalism
#Oil
#Person
#Writing
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
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I just love when the learning curve is steep. And I love being in nature, in the wild.
- Peter Heller
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#Learning
#Love
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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.
- Peter Heller
#Events
#Feel
#History
#People
#Writing
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
#Away
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#Cocktail
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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.
- Peter Heller
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#Me
#River
#Sometimes
I have two younger sisters, and it was a family full of creativity.
- Peter Heller
#Creativity
#Family
#Full
#Two
#Younger
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
#Dolphin
#Environmental
#First
#Strong
I write a lot of environmental stories.
- Peter Heller
#Environmental
#Lot
#Stories
#Write
The great thing about being young and dumb is that you don't know what you can't do.
- Peter Heller
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#Being
#Dumb
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