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Tim Cahill
Australian
Athlete
About the author
You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.
Tim Cahill,
Australian
Athlete
#Writing
#Writer
#Travel
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,
Australian
Athlete
#Death
#Being
#Funny
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,
Australian
Athlete
#Wilderness
#Fashion
#Quest
Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.
Tim Cahill,
Australian
Athlete
#Work
#Will
#Friends
#Writing
#Publishing
#Giving
Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
Tim Cahill,
Australian
Athlete
#Mystery
#Gold
In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.
Tim Cahill,
Australian
Athlete
I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.
Tim Cahill,
Australian
Athlete
#Living
#Dream
#Adventure
#Travel
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.
Tim Cahill,
Australian
Athlete
#First
#Writer
#Travel
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,
Australian
Athlete
#God
#Years
#Writers
#Writer
#Opinion
#Teenage