Quotes by Fennel Hudson

Take a step back and view the world through your eyes, not someone else’s. Listen to your heart and decide what you really want.

There is a fine line between fair criticism and jealous assault.

Publish a book before you’re too old to read it without glasses.

Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine’s Day.

Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain.

As with writing by candlelight, one’s greatest ideas come from ‘the flickering’ between darkness and light.

Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat.

Every layer of complexity creates greater distance from life’s simple truths.

To not use a talent to the best of your ability is to stifle the thing that makes you most special. It is like plucking the wings off a butterfly.

Books are the most important of all my possessions. They capture the thoughts, feelings, dreams and lives of their authors, welcoming us into their worlds and inspiring us to emulate their adventures.

Listen to your heart, not your head.

Traditional angling is a mindset. So,have you set your mind?

As an angler and a gardener, I cherish each drop of rain that falls.

One cannot help but identify with the life-giving quality of water, not just to quench our thirst, but for our emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

Lake water, even when boiled, has an effect on my digestive system similar to the movement of a hangman’s trapdoor.

Organic life cannot be far from water.

If I can’t garden in it, then I won’t wear it.

Satnav will get us quickly and all-too-predictably from A to B, but the path of life is more interesting when we’re allowed to explore the side streets.

There comes a time in one’s life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.

Sounds simple, doesn’t it, this notion of simplicity? Simple things done simply by a simple person. But it’s not as simple as it seems.