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Janna Bialek

  • People who fish know that life is a morality play in which you are sometimes the victor, sometimes vanquished. It is all of life's lessons in the space of a morning. Only an extraordinary person would purposely risk being outsmarted by a creature often less than twelve inches long, over and over again.

    • Janna Bialek,
    • "Thoughts From a Fishing Past," in Holly Morris, ed., Uncommon Waters: Women Write About Fishing ()

Janna Bialek, U.S. writer