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James Herriot
British
Writer
About the author
I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.
James Herriot,
British
Writer
#Love
#Man
#Writing
#Job
#Holidays
I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.
James Herriot,
British
Writer
#March
#Wind
#Spring
I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.
James Herriot,
British
Writer
I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
James Herriot,
British
Writer
#People
#Animals
For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.
James Herriot,
British
Writer
#Wife
#Years
#Funny
I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
James Herriot,
British
Writer
#Hope
#People
#Will
#Needs
#Care
#Animals
I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.
James Herriot,
British
Writer
#Writing
#Fact
I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.
James Herriot,
British
Writer
#Love
#Cats
#Faces
Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
James Herriot,
British
Writer
#Comfort
#Cats
They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.
James Herriot,
British
Writer
#Now
#Quiet
There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.
James Herriot,
British
Writer
#Old
#Help
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
James Herriot,
British
Writer
#Love
#Being
#Loyalty
#Soul
#Animals
#Gratitude
If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.
James Herriot,
British
Writer
#Care
I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
James Herriot,
British
Writer
#People
#Children
#Trust
#Animals
I will write another book if I feel like it.
James Herriot,
British
Writer
#Will
I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
James Herriot,
British
Writer
#Years
#Memory