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William Least Heat-Moon
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I contend that in the kind of nonfiction i write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.
Writing People Liberty
To an american, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. american history is about land.
Land Goodness American History
The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.
Taken Fire Two
It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. it gets rid of every his, her, she and he.
Book Writing Character
I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the missouri river. it's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'i am a grandfather spirit. i have a source; i have a life.
Travel Rivers Personality
Having made the trip from st. louis to the pacific ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the missouri river, i can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet i had a power boat to do it in.
Ocean Rivers Twenties
For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.
Writing Quests Explanation
Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. after a while, i found my perception limited.
Lying Boredom Perception
At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. if he's being installed as chieftain or receiving a nobel prize, that's a fulfilling notion. but if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.
Stupid Sleep Men
No yesterdays on the road.
Yesterday Bikers
Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.
Community Spoons Want
New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. but turn the question around: do new things make for new ways of seeing?
Sight Dust Telescopes
  • Born: August 27, 1939
  • Occupation: Writer
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