
Paul Torday draws this extract from Peter Maxwell’s unpublished autobiography. He said:
“Mostly, I react well to stress. A lot of my best ideas come bubbling to the surface when the pressure is on.”
Source: Paul Torday, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (London: Phoenix, 2007), 234.
Dr Geoff Pound
Image: “My best ideas come bubbling to the surface when the pressure is on.”