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" In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck. "
Tim Cahill
House
Always
Paycheck
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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. "
Tim Cahill
Know
Hard
You
" I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it. "
Tim Cahill
Writing
Long
Think
" As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing. "
Tim Cahill
Adventure
Race
Death
" 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. "
Tim Cahill
Politics
Job
Journalism
" For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get to. Now, in the more than 20 years I've been doing this, the concept of adventure-travel trips or expeditions by groups has sprung up. The places I went 20 years ago now have adventure-travel trips. "
Tim Cahill
Doing
Go
Job
" In the sago palms, you'll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai put those on the fire until they're crispy and eat them. They taste a little bit like creamy snails. But compared to sago, the sago beetle is really pretty good. "
Tim Cahill
Good
Size
Eat
" You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. "
Tim Cahill
Better
Become
You
" I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before. "
Tim Cahill
People
Care
Adventure
" You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the reader wants to read about his trip, not yours.' Whereas I say, the reader just wants to read a good story and to maybe learn something. "
Tim Cahill
Short
Story
Think
" I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure. "
Tim Cahill
Dream
Adventure
I Am
" There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place. "
Tim Cahill
You
Story
Place
" Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn. "
Tim Cahill
Free
Giving
Writing
" The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering. "
Tim Cahill
You
Wilderness
Story
" You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write. "
Tim Cahill
Still
You
Writer
" When I read about how 200 people died on a polar expedition, I wonder why they didn't get to know the Inuit people who were around and presumably know something about surviving in the Arctic after living there for thousands of years. Talking to people is a survival mechanism. "
Tim Cahill
Survival
Know
Living
" My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that. "
Tim Cahill
Home
Vacation
Doing
" For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance. "
Tim Cahill
Nature
Me
Place
" 'Rolling Stone' had started something called 'Outside,' and since I was one of two people in the office that liked going outside, I was pegged to work on it. The concept of the magazine was simple: literate writing about the out-of-doors. I jumped at the opportunity. "
Tim Cahill
Opportunity
Stone
People
" Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. "
Tim Cahill
Gold
Like
Mystery
" The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong. "
Tim Cahill
Go
Writing
Dirty
" 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. "
Tim Cahill
Never
Opinion
Say
" In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.' "
Tim Cahill
Name
Success
History
" 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. "
Tim Cahill
Size
Right
Lift
" My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind. "
Tim Cahill
Book
Mind
Three