40 Quotes by Farley Mowat

Truth I have no trouble with, it’s the facts I get all screwed up.

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country – but not with blanks.

If you are going to be a big personality, you’ve got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.

There was no other wanderer on that road, yet I was not alone, for his tracks went with me, each pawprint as familiar as the print of my own hand. I followed them, and I knew each thing that he had done, each move that he had made, each thought that had been his; for so it is with two who live one life together.

Jamie was quick to see a use for the ice sheet.

Don’t make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...

I have to go on writing because I wouldn’t be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.

Then he jumped up and shouted.

I write every day. I’m always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.