If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.
James Herriot

I will write another book if I feel like it.
James Herriot

They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.
James Herriot

I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.
James Herriot

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

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

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

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