119 Quotes by Tim Cahill

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.

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 are on their backs with their hooves in the air.

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn’t travel, I would still write.

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 them to write about.

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.

Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn’t know it.

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.

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest – find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

That’s why the words “Let’s go!” are intrinsically courageous. It’s the decision to go that is, in itself, entirely intrepid.