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Top 20 Peter Orner Quotes (2025 Update)

Peter Orner Quote: “Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman’sWolf Boyis palpable, and so is the flawed, honest humanity of his characters. Here is real loss and somehow, real catharsis.”

1. “Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman’sWolf Boyis palpable, and so is the flawed, honest humanity of his characters. Here is real loss and somehow, real catharsis.”

— Peter Orner

Peter Orner Quote: “Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We’re not as tricky as we think we are.”

2. “Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We’re not as tricky as we think we are.”

— Peter Orner

Peter Orner Quote: “Yeah, I want to retreat from the world and ponder in solitude. At the same time I wouldn’t mind at least a couple of people pondering my whereabouts.”

3. “Yeah, I want to retreat from the world and ponder in solitude. At the same time I wouldn’t mind at least a couple of people pondering my whereabouts.”

— Peter Orner

Peter Orner Quote: “I used to be surprised and a little annoyed when characters would reappear in my mind, itching to be in another story. Now I realize it’s part of the deal, that you create these people out of thin air but then, if you do it right, they actually live.”

4. “I used to be surprised and a little annoyed when characters would reappear in my mind, itching to be in another story. Now I realize it’s part of the deal, that you create these people out of thin air but then, if you do it right, they actually live.”

— Peter Orner

Peter Orner Quote: “For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.”

5. “For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.”

— Peter Orner

Peter Orner Quote: “I beat a story to within an inch of its life – that’s when I know its done. Not before, not after.”

6. “I beat a story to within an inch of its life – that’s when I know its done. Not before, not after.”

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Peter Orner Quote: “One story I’ve been trying to write for years, and haven’t been able to finish, is about a face I saw, just a glimpse of a face, in a max security prison in North Carolina. I’m still trying to understand what I saw in that guy’s face.”

7. “One story I’ve been trying to write for years, and haven’t been able to finish, is about a face I saw, just a glimpse of a face, in a max security prison in North Carolina. I’m still trying to understand what I saw in that guy’s face.”

— Peter Orner

Peter Orner Quote: “I revise and revise and revise. I’m not even sure “revise” is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it’s done.”

8. “I revise and revise and revise. I’m not even sure “revise” is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it’s done.”

— Peter Orner

Peter Orner Quote: “Everybody, doesn’t matter who you are, escapes time. And for me, nothing is stranger than the thought that kids are just kids. Nobody is just anything. Whether you are eight or eighty, you’ve got your own unique take on how weird this world is.”

9. “Everybody, doesn’t matter who you are, escapes time. And for me, nothing is stranger than the thought that kids are just kids. Nobody is just anything. Whether you are eight or eighty, you’ve got your own unique take on how weird this world is.”

— Peter Orner

Peter Orner Quote: “I think what I’m after, a lot of the time, is just honesty. What accounts for the fact that the stories we tell ourselves – the story we carry around and think of most often – are the dark ones? Maybe we have to wander around in the darkness to understand it?”

10. “I think what I’m after, a lot of the time, is just honesty. What accounts for the fact that the stories we tell ourselves – the story we carry around and think of most often – are the dark ones? Maybe we have to wander around in the darkness to understand it?”

— Peter Orner

Peter Orner Quote: “I’ve spent so many years living in one place and imaging another.”

11. “I’ve spent so many years living in one place and imaging another.”

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Peter Orner Quote: “But this is exactly why I read – and don’t belong to a book group – because reading is the most individual thing there is. Why collectivize it? Didn’t we have enough bad English teachers in school? Crowd sourcing and literature shouldn’t mix.”

12. “But this is exactly why I read – and don’t belong to a book group – because reading is the most individual thing there is. Why collectivize it? Didn’t we have enough bad English teachers in school? Crowd sourcing and literature shouldn’t mix.”

— Peter Orner

Peter Orner Quote: “My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.”

13. “My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.”

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

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

— Peter Orner

Peter Orner Quote: “I’ve spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.”

15. “I’ve spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.”

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Peter Orner Quote: “Actually, you’re not famous at all. Maybe you’ll get some traction after you’re dead?”

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

— Peter Orner

Peter Orner Quote: “If a novel or a story works, you don’t stop thinking about it; it doesn’t truly end.”

17. “If a novel or a story works, you don’t stop thinking about it; it doesn’t truly end.”

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Peter Orner Quote: “I agonize over things like this – the order of things, section titles, all this architectural sort of stuff. Takes me years to figure out.”

18. “I agonize over things like this – the order of things, section titles, all this architectural sort of stuff. Takes me years to figure out.”

— Peter Orner

Peter Orner Quote: “I think anything we do – eating, walking down the street, online shopping – gives you another perspective on writing stories.”

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

— Peter Orner

Peter Orner Quote: “The difference between a short story and a novel is the difference between an inarticulate pang in your heart compared to the tragedy of your whole life.”

20. “The difference between a short story and a novel is the difference between an inarticulate pang in your heart compared to the tragedy of your whole life.”

— Peter Orner

Peter Orner Quote: “Maybe the kids will always be stronger. It’s us – the impostors masquerading as protectors – who are unimaginably weak. For.”

21. “Maybe the kids will always be stronger. It’s us – the impostors masquerading as protectors – who are unimaginably weak. For.”

— Peter Orner

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