The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong. — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write. — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time,… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that for a long time I tried not to write about my own backyard and my home. I… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
'Rolling Stone' had started something called 'Outside,' and since I was one of two people in the office that liked going outside,… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
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… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for… — Tim Cahill Copy Share
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.… — Tim Cahill Copy Share
An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility. — Tim Cahill Copy Share
The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the… — Tim Cahill Copy Share
The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes… — Tim Cahill Copy Share
Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. — Tim Cahill Copy Share
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… — Tim Cahill Copy Share
As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore… — Tim Cahill Copy Share
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its… — Tim Cahill Copy Share
“EARLY MORNING IN THE yard at the Men’s Reformatory at Anamosa, prisoners lounging about, doing lazy time, and here comes John Wayne Gacy, inmate… — Tim Cahill Copy Share
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… — Tim Cahill Copy Share
In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob… — Tim Cahill Copy Share
A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a… — Tim Cahill Copy Share
