Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey
Edward Paul Abbeywas an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views. His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth29 January 1927
CountryUnited States of America
style sake too-much
Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.
routine occasional easier
In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
done second-best should
When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.
growing-up careers grows
Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.
best-place written good-place
I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
country america nuclear
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.
country home men
A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.
hiking waste life-is
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
book writing years
How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.
book facts written
My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
events fiction written
It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
journey blue space
The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
fungi critics oaks
A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
running book east
The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)