Tim Cahill

The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#explanations #forgotten-past #future-generations #dreams

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#adventure #am #dream #i #i am

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

#arrogant #creatures #early #god-like #i

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#house #paycheck #scramble

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#fine #fine thing #gold #like #mystery

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

#basically #being #bored #boring #death

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#become #better #travel #writer #writing

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

— Tim Cahill

#i #loves #somebody #still #travel

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

#discovering #fashion #find #finding #interested