Literary Quotes

[fish41]

Thought I would post a few literary quotes I have read or stumbled across that perhaps touch the spirit of our sport and its environs

please feel free to add any you too come across

There are country places that look as if they had stopped taking account of time a hundred years ago - or even more - and had stayed peacefully still ever since. 

C. Henry Warren

Our times are strange times, with a sort of fever on them. Men, who should have their feet on living soil, are shut up in sky-offending towers of flats; great towns sprawl and breathe foul fumes, not air. Crafts die and machines are master; cold plastic replaces the honesty and nature of wood. We, citizens of the chemists' era, must search with a kind of panic for those rooting tendrils that should unite us to our true origins.
Bernard Venables
   
 

[DaveE]

Must have missed this post when it was first made.

I have a collection of angling books most of which are instructional but a few which are more tales of angling trips and travelling experiences.
I can recommend:-

The Magic Wheel - David Profumo & Graham Swift
The Witchery of Water - H.G.C Claypool
Going Fishing - Nedgley Farson
Hooked - Fen Montaign
Loved River - H.R. Jukes

Unfortunately I get the impression that reading books is a dying pastime judging by the terrible spelling, grammar and lack of punctuation displayed online!


 

[fish41]

Yes read Farsons Going Fishing although i didnt quite get into it as it was game fishing in canada but it certainly gave you the sense of wild fishing but he gave good tips about using red on hooks. Also read Loved River and had as much enjoyment trying to work out where in Lancashire/yorkshire it was but to no avail which left me wondering if it was fictional. Will look out for some of the other titles you list to add to my retirement reading .
Gearge Melly Hooked is a good read and localish