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.
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.
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.
I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle.
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.
Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day.
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.
The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a living writing fiction and poetry.
I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures.
Writing 'Dog Stars' was coming home. My spirit just sang. It's what I wanted to do my whole life.
Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day.
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.
I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle.
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.
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.
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.