Basements Quote by Norman Maclean

“Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the…

— Norman Maclean

“Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone,…

— Norman Maclean

“Water never stops moving. Rain falls, and runs down a mountain into a river. The river finds its way to the ocean. It evaporates,…

— Jodi Picoult

“That night in bed I was thinking about the way creeks and streams operate. They start off little, gurgling and bubbling and jumping over…

— John Marsden

“The river wears away the rock to get to the ocean ...... so it is with the soul in search of its creator.”

— L.G. Space

“Folks called this place haunted, felt the emanations of an unspeakable act moving outward like ripples on water.”

— William Gay

“and isn't it the curse of the drifter, the desolation of heart we feel each evening at sundown, with the slow loop of the…

— Thomas Pynchon

“The flow of the river is ceaseless; and its water is never the same. The foam that floats in the pools Now gathering, now…

— Kamo no Chōmei

“The river and everything I remembered about it became a possession to me, a personal, private possession, as nothing else in my life ever…

— James Dickey

“There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed…

— Paulo Coelho

“The river loved to tell everybody (everybody being the sky, the wind, the few trees that grew around there, birds, deer and even the…

— Richard Brautigan

“It was an evening of torment, and I remember only one other thing about it. At some point after everyone was asleep, I wandered…

— Arthur Golden