I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

I do have trouble with titles.

One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.