Quotes by Joseph Monninger

About Joseph Monninger:

Joseph Monninger is an American writer and Professor of English at Plymouth State University.
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We are alive, the wolves said. And the world is beautiful.

Joseph Monninger

Don’t spit into heaven... Don’t tell the gods your plans; they’ll only laugh.

Joseph Monninger

I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.

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I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

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Biologists have determined brookies to be indicators of ecosystem health and have been recently campaigning to get the word out. If brookies inhabit a stream, the odds are good that the waterway is in excellent condition.

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I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera and trying to capture it for some future moment. That's always struck me as strange.

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I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!

Joseph Monninger

Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears.

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I'd love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn't brought up in that environment. My wife is better at woodworking, and most around-the-house skills, than I am.

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Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

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When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

Joseph Monninger

I usually fish a Hornberg or a Muddler Minnow, a deer-haired streamer that comes in a variety of sizes and colors but replicates a sculpin minnow or a grasshopper. Even if a trout doesn't take the larger streamers, it can usually be counted on to com...

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As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

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I've taken a mail packet boat along the southern Newfoundland coast and spent some time on St. Pierre and Miquelon watching the seal colonies. I like pine trees. I like cold rivers.

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Author Bio

  • NameJoseph Monninger
  • DescriptionAmerican fiction writer and Professor of English
  • BornOctober 28, 1953
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist