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Peter Heller Quotes

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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.

Tough You Know Living Out Poet

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.

Party Over Cocktail Out Away Means

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.

Time Men School Mom Artist Mad

I have two younger sisters, and it was a family full of creativity.

Family Creativity Two Full Sisters

I love to fish almost more than anything.

Love Fish More Anything Almost Than

I always wanted to be a writer. I was writing poetry when I was 6.

Poetry Writing Always Writer Wanted

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.

Mother Wife Husband Serious Her

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.

Me Loss Lost Animals Grandparents

The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a living writing fiction and poetry.

Poetry Writing You Living Hard Tell

I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures.

Writing Living Got Make Adventures

Writing 'Dog Stars' was coming home. My spirit just sang. It's what I wanted to do my whole life.

Life Dog Stars Home Writing Spirit

I write a lot of environmental stories.

Environmental Write Stories I Write

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