Norman Maclean

"At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding."

- Norman Maclean

"Many of us probably would be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect."

- Norman Maclean

"At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear."

- Norman Maclean

"There's certainly something in fishing that makes a man feel he is doing right; I can't explain it, but it's very pleasant."

- Norman Maclean

"If our father had his say, nobody who did not know how to catch a fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him."

- Norman Maclean

"I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me."

- Norman Maclean

"At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear."

- Norman Maclean

"He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman."

- Norman Maclean

"To him, all good things—trout as well as eternal salvation—come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy."

- Norman Maclean

"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."

- Norman Maclean

"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it."

- Norman Maclean

"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."

- Norman Maclean