Boat Quote by Arthur Ransome

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer…

— Arthur Ransome

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

— Arthur Ransome

“Only, the beastly Arctic won't freeze,”

— Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

— Arthur Ransome

Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as…

— Arthur Ransome

“Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won't drown.”

— Arthur Ransome

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

— Arthur Ransome

“They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.”

— Arthur Ransome

“The island had come to seem one of those places seen from the train that belong to a life in which we shall never…

— Arthur Ransome

For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book…

— Arthur Ransome

“Who would wave a flag to be rescued if they had a desert island of their own? That was the thing that spoilt Robinson…

— Arthur Ransome

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been

— Arthur Ransome