# Quote — Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut

> I knew from hunting food the thing you need most of isn't water or ammo, it's patience.

- Author: [Tim Winton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton.md)
- Book: [The Shepherd's Hut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut.md)
- Page: 248
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Winton#The_Shepherd's_Hut_(2018)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/i-knew-from

## More from this book

> And you know someone's special when you never get enough of them.

p. 83 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/and-you-know.md)

> Honestly, sometimes you'd rather be a dog. A mutt doesn't torture itself with thinking.

p. 37 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/honestly-sometimes-youd.md)

> I knew what people thought. Clacktons, we were rubbish. Town like Monkton, one pub, roadhouse, rail silo and twelve streets, half of them empty, small enough everyone heard something and they all had a fucking opinion.

p. 21 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/i-knew-what.md)