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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.

You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.

Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.

Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.

A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'

To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

Whaling was the oil business of its day.

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

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