Quotes by Peter Orner

Peter Orner

A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.

Book

Stories

Years

A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories… grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but the soul of its people.

People

Rivers

Soul

Actually, you’re not famous at all. Maybe you’ll get some traction after you’re dead?

Traction

Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That in itself would be an accomplishment. But this is a book that is truly riveting, a narrative that gallops. Lizzy Borden eat your heart out. Here’s a real crime of passion. Or was it? I dare you to pick this one up and try, just try to put it down.

Book

Passion

Real

As a professor I can’t teach writing.

Teach

Writing

I always say writing fiction isn’t something you teach. It’s something you do, and only experimentation – i.e. doing it, either badly or good sometimes – can help anybody get any better or worse at it.

Fiction

Helping

Writing

I feel like there are too many words in the world, and I think silence is so much more powerful than the glut of words.

Powerful

Silence

Thinking

I have a friend who teaches yoga (or is it pilates?), and she said that I don’t seem to live in the moment. And I said, “Exactly!” I’d go nuts if I lived in the moment.

Live In The Moment

Nuts

Yoga

I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event?

Memories

Remember

Thinking

I think anything we do – eating, walking down the street, online shopping – gives you another perspective on writing stories.

Shopping

Thinking

Writing

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Awkward

Beautiful

Book

Character

Crazy

Ends

Exciting

Fiction

Firsts

Guts

Guy

Helping

Imaging

Incredibles

Live In The Moment

Mean

Memories

Mistake

Moving

Mystery

Nice

Notebook

Novel

Nuts

Passion

People

Powerful

Prison

Real

Remember

Rivers

Scene

Shopping

Short Story

Silence

Soul

Stories

Stranger

Teach

Teacher

Teaching

Thinking

Traction

Trying

Vision

World

Writing

Years

Yoga

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Quotes by Peter Orner

Peter Orner

A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.

A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories… grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but the soul of its people.

Actually, you’re not famous at all. Maybe you’ll get some traction after you’re dead?

As a professor I can’t teach writing.

I always say writing fiction isn’t something you teach. It’s something you do, and only experimentation – i.e. doing it, either badly or good sometimes – can help anybody get any better or worse at it.

I feel like there are too many words in the world, and I think silence is so much more powerful than the glut of words.

I have a friend who teaches yoga (or is it pilates?), and she said that I don’t seem to live in the moment. And I said, “Exactly!” I’d go nuts if I lived in the moment.

I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event?

I think anything we do – eating, walking down the street, online shopping – gives you another perspective on writing stories.

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