I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.
I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.
Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.
Angling is an Art. . . an art worth your learning.
It [angling] deserves commendations;. . . it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.
We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable.
As a writer, my weapon is my pen. I want to create more awareness about the people in Syria. This is the most important issue: protecting civilians in this crazy war.
The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.