As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

Writing is a job: you must show up.

The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.