I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and…

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

— John D. Voelker

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

— John D. Voelker

The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as…

— John D. Voelker

Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged…

— John D. Voelker

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your…

— John D. Voelker

During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on…

— John D. Voelker

“I know i'm making her sound like something out of a story. But it was the other way around. When my mother told me…

— Naomi Novik

“These were the days of fond promise, when the world was very small and there wasstill magic in it. He told them stories o…

— Iain Banks

It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context and resolution…

— Ken Loach

“David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her,…

— John Connolly

After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed…

— Paula Gunn Allen

All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He…

— Philip Pullman

“Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. (Averill often told herself…

— Alice Munro

Some have said I focus on marginalized communities, but it's not like that was my mission statement. I've just told stories that interest me,…

— Sean Baker