“I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.” — Tim Cahill Quote

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

My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.

As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing.

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.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

We don't nod along as children go through adolescent decisions.

I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her - looks, talent, opportunity, with her 'whole life ahead of her,' yadda, yadda, yadda - yet was spiraling into misery.