Non-Fiction Biography In the Company of Rivers | In the Company of Rivers |
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| Written by Editor | |
| Wednesday, 27 June 2007 | |
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An Angler's Stories & Recollections with Ed Quigley  In The Company of Rivers Ed Quigley: As a freelance copywriter, you seldom get your name on anything. Not the speeches, the ads, the commercials. Once, when I complained about this to my daughter, she said, “Well write down all those amusing stories you’re always telling.” I obeyed. Lauren Smith: How much research went into a book of this nature? Ed Quigley: I keep a separate file on each trip I take. I throw in everything: airline tickets, hotel receipts, restaurant menus, notes, etc. That became the “research” for the book. So you might say this book took a lifetime of research. Lauren Smith: What can you share that would surprise us? Ed Quigley: People who neither hunt nor fish so often distain both sports because they think the sole purpose of each is to kill, wound or harm something. Yet, were they to look into the literature of these sports they would be surprised to learn that, for some of us, a hike in the woods is not enough. We crave a deeper interaction with nature. These sports enable us to explore not only man’s relationship with animals and nature – but also to experience the camaraderie sportsmen find in pursuing their sport. Lauren Smith: Why do you think so many people like to fish? Ed Quigley: To go fishing is to engage in a flirtation with mysteries and possibilities. (What lies below the surface?) It is always a journey across unexplored terrain, a journey which always anticipates the unexpected. It is perhaps the only journey where the destination (catching a fish) is not so terribly important. And, of course, fish dwell in such lovely places. That’s what attracts so many people to the sport of fishing. Lauren Smith: What do you hope your book does for your reader? Ed Quigley: I hope readers will enjoy taking this journey with me to the places where I have been, to meet the people I have met. And I hope I can tempted them to discover some of the warm and comfortable parables that I have found right here in the company of rivers. Lauren Smith: What has surprised you the most about this process? Ed Quigley: Once I put all the stories together and looked back over them, I discovered that I had not really caught that many fish. Instead, what I had done during this lifetime of mine was to gather up a brimming basket of memories, some as sweet as September peaches. According to the latest available statistics -- National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, issued October 2002 – there are 73.2 million anglers out there who spent $41 billion on fishing trips and tackle and over $ 1 billion for licenses. Ed Quigley is a freelance writer whose ad credits include American Express, and BMG Music. He was a Caples Award Finalist for work on Ken Burns’s Baseball. His writing has appeared on the Op-Ed page of the Chicago Tribune, NY Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and Wall Street Journal; his stories in Fly Fisherman, Yale Anglers’ Journal, and the Art of Angling Journal. He lives in Lansdale, PA. |
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