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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.

Other than fishing and a little bird-hunting, all I do is write.