Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.