"I have to go on writing because I……" — Farley Mowat
"I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die."
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18 Quotes by Farley Mowat
Farley Mowat has 18 quotes on this site.
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I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll…
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I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.
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It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
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I believe in God the way my dog does
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Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and…
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Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
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The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human…
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If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
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Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...
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