William Least Heat-Moon

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#be careful #careful #easy #find #going

Beware thoughts that come in the night. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#come #night #thoughts

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. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#come #communities #dominate #eat #eliminated

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. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#anything #contend #i #i write #kind

I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#i #know #learn #wanted

I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#i #kind #like #particular #set

I simply couldn't make it without a copilot. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#make #simply #without

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. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#cannot #character #difficult #every #gender

The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#go #i #me #now #out

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#hold #past #people #right #road