American - Writer | 1944 -
My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.
Tim Cahill
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Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.
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Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.
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I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.
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The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.
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Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
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Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.
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It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.
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My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.
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I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.
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In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.
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You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.
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