Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.
What is writing but an expression of my own life?
These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.