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" I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. What I loved about it was, you got paid for what you caught. "

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" It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. "

Jon Krakauer

Want

You

Desire

" I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer. "

" You get a compound fracture in Colorado where I live, and you can probably be in a hospital within a matter of hours, certainly within a day. "

" There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery. "

" Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon. "

" Most friendly fire incidents aren't investigated properly because of neglect or a natural inclination to cover up the embarrassing fact that they killed one of their own. "

Jon Krakauer

Fact

Own

" The pieces I've written for 'Outside' magazine are definitely my best work, and they're virtually all about the outdoors. "

" When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do. "

" When I write books, I've learned not to have any expectations that I'm going to change the world. "

" Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. "

" I guess I don't try to justify climbing or defend it, because I can't. I see climbing as a compulsion that, at its best, is no worse than many other compulsions - golf or stamp collecting or growing world-record pumpkins. "

" How can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you're not a feminist, then you're a problem. "

" When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or the cold - I especially didn't appreciate the cold. It can be just debilitating, and things can happen so quickly. "

" I'm not even religious, but I get fanaticism. I get the appeal of it. "

" I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book. "

" Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism. "

Jon Krakauer

Focused

Heaven

" Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion. "

" Rob Hall was, without doubt, the most competent guide in mountaineering. "

" Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose. "

Jon Krakauer

Nothing

Purpose

" I love being outdoors, being in the mountains and the desert, and my wife enjoys that too. That's one of the things that sustain our relationship. "

" As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist. "

" The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road. "

" There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing. "

" I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world. "

" Let's not mince words: Everest doesn't attract a whole lot of well-balanced folks. The self-selection process tends to weed out the cautious and the sensible in favor of those who are single-minded and incredibly driven. Which is a big reason the mountain is so dangerous. "

" I knew that you couldn't make a living simply writing about the outdoors, so I made an effort from the beginning of my freelance career to write about other subjects. "

" Short form media is reductionist by nature. "

" Everest is not real climbing. It's rich people climbing. It's a trophy on the wall, and they're done... When I say I wish I'd never gone, I really mean that. "

" When I was 23, I climbed this mountain in Alaska called Devil's Thumb alone. It was incredibly dangerous, and I did it because I thought that if I did something that hard and pulled it off, my life was gonna be transformed. And of course, nothing happened. But I get the search for purpose. "

" Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you're not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time. "

Jon Krakauer

Environment

Time

Doing The Right Thing