Stephen J. Bodio > Quotes

“McIntyre’s tale may have predecessors, but it is unique. I strain for literary comparisons and think: Kipling, the classical Chinese poets, early Patrick O’Brian, Hopkins. I search for a definition of its animating presence: the predator, the Buddhist sage, the hunter. All fall short. I stand before The Snow Leopard’s Tale in awe and with a little envy. It is a gem, an uncanny evocation of the cold ancient dusty highlands of Central Asia, and could only have come from Tom McIntyre. It is his best.”
― Stepen J. Bodio author "An Eternity of Eagles"

“What does writing let you do that you couldn’t do otherwise?” I answered, quickly, that it let me live the life I loved and to do odd things—falconry, travel, animal keeping. And, I added, “sometimes get paid for them.”
― Stephen J. Bodio, Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia

“QUERENCIA: The word doesn’t translate. It is used in Spanish to designate that mysterious little area in the bullring that catches the fancy of the fighting bull when he charges in. He imagines it his sanctuary: when parked there, he supposes he cannot be hurt. . . . So it is, borrowing the term, that one can speak of one’s “querencia” to mean that little, unspecified area in life’s arena where one feels safe, serene.”
― Stephen J. Bodio, Querencia

“I’m like, wait a minute, wait a minute! I mean, I just want to know one thing: How do you teach them not to eat your kids?”
― Stephen J. Bodio, Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia

“orders the roof of the shelter to be thrown open and so sees the cranes, he bids his attendants fetch such gerfalcons take the cranes in full view while the Great Khan remains all the while on his couch. And this affords him great sport and recreation.”
― Stephen J. Bodio, Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia

“all clues, ideally, should be met with delight and detachment, rather than euphoria or, worse, disdain and despair.”
― Stephen J. Bodio, Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia

“Apparently it’s okay for eagles to hunt. But it’s not okay for people to enjoy it.”
― Stephen J. Bodio, Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia

“I sometimes threw books without indexes to the floor.”
― Stephen J. Bodio, Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia

“one octogenarian “grandfather” who still used the rifle with which he had killed the Russians who tried to stop him at the border in the thirties.”
― Stephen J. Bodio, Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia

“McIntyre’s tale may have predecessors, but it is unique. I strain for literary comparisons and think: Kipling, the classical Chinese poets, early Patrick O’Brian, Hopkins. I search for a definition of its animating presence: the predator, the Buddhist sage, the hunter. All fall short. I stand before The Snow Leopard’s Tale in awe and with a little envy. It is a gem, an uncanny evocation of the cold ancient dusty highlands of Central Asia, and could only have come from Tom McIntyre. It is his best.”
— Stephen J. Bodio”
― Stephen J. Bodio author "An Eternity of Eagles"

“Mongolia, which he described as “Montana in the seventeenth century.”
― Stephen J. Bodio, Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia

“I quickly learned that people in this mountainous region aren’t early risers, preferring for the sun to take the chill off the landscape before doing much stirring around.”
― Stephen J. Bodio, Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia

“General sporting magazines, scrabbling madly for dollars in a declining market, had become tools of market research, which again and again told editors to give readers more of what they already had.”
― Stephen J. Bodio, Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia

“Eagles were “not the prettiest birds in the world” and were “sky sloths”;”
― Stephen J. Bodio, Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia