If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.

The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.

The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.

I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

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.

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.