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" All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in the Gulf, it's all first person there. "
Person
Oil
Writing
" A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan. "
Strong
Environmental
First
" Huntington Beach is like ground zero for surfers. "
Beach
Zero
Like
" I always wanted to be a writer. I was writing poetry when I was 6. "
Always
Writing
Writer
" I don't know if we will really have a doomsday for human beings, but if we did, to me, it wouldn't be an unjust outcome, given how many species we're taking with us every year. "
Will
Us
Year
" 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. "
Got
Tough
Know
" I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures. "
Writing
Adventures
Got
" I have two younger sisters, and it was a family full of creativity. "
Creativity
Younger
Two
" I just love when the learning curve is steep. And I love being in nature, in the wild. "
Just
Learning
Love
" I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle. "
More
Handle
Approach
" I love to fish almost more than anything. "
Fish
Almost
Than
" I'm fascinated by characters who are faced with big losses and have to put their lives back together again. "
Who
Together
Losses
" I remember the cover of this one L'Amour book showed a guy on horseback, leading a pack horse across a creek in the snow. Something about that cover - all I wanted to do was drift the high lonesome on horseback. "
High
Guy
Snow
" I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative. "
Narrative
Great
Always
" I write a lot of environmental stories. "
Stories
Environmental
Lot
" I write a thousand words a day, and I always stop in the middle of a scene or thought, and it makes it easy to pick up on the next day. "
Always
Easy
Stop
" I wrote strong advocacy stories, and when I got to fiction, I made a deliberate effort to leave that behind and enter a country where I had no ax to grind, no advocacy issues that I was carrying with me. "
Got
Me
Strong
" 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. "
Like
Away
Party
" 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. "
Lost
Grandparents
Animals
" 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
Her
Husband
" 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. "
Artist
Time
Mom
" New Zealand is weird. I mean, it does not seem of this earth, not to me. It really is like something made up. "
New
Earth
Like
" Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day. "
Going
Loss
Day
" Surfing is a life path. You have to really commit... You have to let go and have faith that it's gonna work out when you take off. "
Work
You
Life
" The great thing about being young and dumb is that you don't know what you can't do. "
Dumb
Know
You
" The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book. "
Great
Everything
Care
" The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a living writing fiction and poetry. "
Writing
Tell
Poetry
" There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm so physically exuberant, it was extra hard to sit still at the desk and put in the hours that you need to put in to write. "
You
Life
Living
" Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway. "
Time
Our Time
First
" When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt like the perfect job. "
Perfect
College
Job
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