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- I Write
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write a lot of environmental stories.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing nonfiction, you're responsible to posterity, to history, to other people because the events happened, and you feel responsible to record them as they happened.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
With fiction, I felt like I could bring to bear my full imagination, my entire heart, and so you feel very vulnerable. It's not your physical life, but it's everything else, so it felt like a lot was at stake.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fascinated by characters who are faced with big losses and have to put their lives back together again.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.
- Country
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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.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about being young and dumb is that you don't know what you can't do.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love when the learning curve is steep. And I love being in nature, in the wild.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Zealand is weird. I mean, it does not seem of this earth, not to me. It really is like something made up.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
Huntington Beach is like ground zero for surfers.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle.
- Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day.
- Chattering
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to fish almost more than anything.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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