“Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.” MadeI CanFiveOceanHundredRiversTwentiesMilesBoatContinentsPacificTwenty FiveMissouriPacific Ocean Author:William Least Heat-Moon
“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.” PeopleKnowsWritingKindLibertyReaderPursueNonfictionWriting Nonfiction Author:William Least Heat-Moon
“I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.” DoeSpiritSourcePersonalityTravelRiversGrandfatherTravelerDistinctiveMissouri Author:William Least Heat-Moon
“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.” WritingBookCharacterDifficultPagesGender Author:William Least Heat-Moon
“The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.” DealsCostNegativeGardenNativeResolveEnteringEdenGarden Of EdenExpeditionsLewis And Clark Author:William Least Heat-Moon
