Quotes from Randy Wayne White

In this book, Doc Ford references "snag fishing" for tarpon in Boca Grande Pass on Florida's Gulf Coast. Thanks to Kenneth W. Wright—Florida Environmentalist of the Decade, in the minds of many anglers—this "jigging" technique has finally been exposed as a fraud. Mr. Wright, and a group of knowledgeable

have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a religion.   —GEORGE ORWELL, 1938

Shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely a hundred people, and here are the ratios. There would be fifty-seven Asians, twenty-one Europeans, seven South Americans, nine Africans and eight from the U.S. Seventy of those people would be non-Christian, eighty would live below the poverty level and half the world's wealth would be in the hands of only six people, all citizens of the United States. And only two of those hundred people would own a computer.

Excuses were for those willing to concede that weakness was their strongest ally.

It is impossible to do math and be frightened at the same time.

Solitude is much preferred to the more disturbing isolation of sharing loneliness with a stranger. I

I'm prone to exaggerate when I'm sober.

When your emotions or your behavior are contrary to your own self-image, it's time to stand back and reassess.

It's the days that pass by unnoticed that are probably the best days of our lives.

When people say they don't have time, it really means they're not sufficiently motivated

Establishing a rock-solid anchor is the first step to surviving emotional chaos.

Raymond Tullock is like most men. His balls tell hiim he should be in charge, but his brain's just not big enough to steer the load.

Didn't understand the nation's habit of clubbing itself each morning with a list of tragedy and doom before trying to go cheerfully into the day. Like arsenic, it had to have a cumulative effect.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

It's called 'Night Moves,' and it's my favorite 'Doc Ford' of all times. It's way too complicated, but it worked.

The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.

All the women in my family were superb cooks.

The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we'd see snook and redfish and probably goliath grouper. And it's an amazing world unto itself and a very thin demarcation between one world and the other. You know, the distance of the water surface.

It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There is a lake near Everglades City, Deep Lake, and large tarpon show up in that lake, 30 miles from the sea.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

My aunts still try to fatten me up.