Zitat des Tages von Peter Heller:
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.
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.
I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle.
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.
A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.
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.
Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day.
Writing 'Dog Stars' was coming home. My spirit just sang. It's what I wanted to do my whole life.
Huntington Beach is like ground zero for surfers.
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.
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.
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.
I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures.
I write a lot of environmental stories.
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.
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.
The great thing about being young and dumb is that you don't know what you can't do.
