Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

- Arthur Ransome

I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring…

- Arthur Ransome

. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to c…

- 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 of children's books.

- Arthur Ransome

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

- Arthur Ransome

There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason u…

- 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 published in…

- Arthur Ransome

The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of you…

- Arthur Ransome

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

- Arthur Ransome