10 Quotes by Walter Farley

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.

Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.

Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking ‘What have I achieved?’ rather than ‘What have I enjoyed?’

Yet when the books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.

You’ve never in your life seen a horse run so fast! He’s all power-all beauty.

Its hold was loaded with coffee, rice, tea, oil seeds and jute. Black smoke poured from its one stack, darkening the hot cloudless sky. Alexander.

Arabia – where the greatest horses in the world were bred!

He opened his eyes to see the dented skull cap, still on the chair where Henry had left it. He looked at it a long while, knowing that it was far better to accept it than to turn away and forever fear it.