“The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a...” — Peter Heller Quote

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

“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.”

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

“I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.”

“The one thing that Redfin has been really good at has been at delighting people.”

“The one thing that Pop taught me was to be myself.”