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James Herriot Biography

James Alfred "Alf" Wight, OBE, FRCVS (3 October 1916 – 23 February 1995), known by the pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and writer, who used his many years of experiences as a veterinary surgeon to write a series of books each consisting of stories about animals and their owners. He is best known for these semi-autobiographical works, beginning with If Only They Could Talk in 1970, which spawned a series of movies and television series.

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And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

Emptiness, Moors, Silence, Utterly

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

Box, Boxes, Letters, Manuscript, Nasty

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.

Retirement, Fall, Animal, Young, Farm

At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under the first pale sunshine and the wisps of mist still hanging on the high tops.

Glittering, Hanging On, Morning, Sunshine, Tops, Under

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

Cat, Cats, Comfort, Connoisseurs, Pet

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

Life, Part, Probably, Standing, Staring, Too Much

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

Automatically, Fact, Facts, Liked, Thinking, Writing

No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat.

Animal, Cat, Comfort, Judging

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.

Cat, Cheek, Expressions, Inspirational, Motivational, Touching

It was Sunday morning (one a. m. ), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.

Animal, Morning, Round, Sunday, Unusual, Vet

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

Funny, Lunch, Stories, Wife, Years

I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.

Animal, Dump, People, Terrible, Things

Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.

Dog, Giving, Like, Obey, Security, Training

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

Animal, Sick, Care, George, Shaw

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.

Morning, Nose, Spring, Wind, Yorkshire

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.

Animal, Care, Children, Kind, People, Trusting

And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the motorcar have carried the outside world into the most isolated places so that the simple people you used to meet on the lonely farms are rapidly becoming like people anywhere else. There are still a few left, of course—old folk who cling to the ways of their fathers and when I come across any of them I like to make some excuse to sit down and talk with them and listen to the old Yorkshire words and expressions which have almost disappeared.

Come, Expressions, Father, Lonely, Simple, Yorkshire

Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object - and it always did the same thing to me. It's difficult to put into words but perhaps I can best describe it by saying that if I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.

Dog, Leaping, Looked, Perhaps, Tails, Years

I will write another book if I feel like it.

Book, Writing, Feels, Like, Write

Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.

Animal, Disasters, Long, Tale, Things, Unpredictable Things

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