I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.

I can't rightly say where deciding to write about the American Revolution came from; I had bits and pieces of information about the war and about the country at that time that I'd collected over the years and, of course, I'm comfortable in the woods, so, finally, it just all feel into place.

I am happiest in the brush and by myself - whether that's the woods of northern Minnesota or the wilds of Alaska behind a dogteam, picking through the foothills of the mountains by my ranch in New Mexico on horseback, or on the ship of my sailboat on the Pacific - so I guess it made sense to me that both Brian and Samuel would find their challenges and adventures, if that's what you call them, in the woods.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.