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> [“ On a clear day you can see Prince Edward Island , we would say. Not "forever", just Prince Edward Island.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/on-a-clear-day-you-can-see-prince-edward-island-we-would-say-not/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

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## More by Alistair MacLeod

> [“And I am overwhelmed now by the awfulness of over-simplification. For now I realize that not only have I been guilty of it through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/and-i-am-overwhelmed-now-by-the-awfulness-of-over-simplification-for/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

> [Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/perhaps-it-is-better-to-have-a-place-to-go-to-that-you-hate-than-to/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

> [A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/a-fiddle-for-angus-is-a-charming-tale-this-is-a-very-fine-book/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

> [“Some men,” she would add in ominous seriousness, “are nice as pie in public but within their own homes they are mean and miserly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/some-men-she-would-add-in-ominous-seriousness-are-nice-as-pie-in/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

> [I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/i-like-to-think-that-i-am-telling-a-story-rather-than-writing-it/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

> [There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/there-is-a-kind-of-belief-among-my-students-that-things-that-are-true/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

> [No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/no-one-has-ever-said-that-life-is-to-be-easy-only-that-it-is-to-be/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

> [Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/today-there-is-a-division-between-those-who-write-about-literature/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

> [“Sometimes it slanted against her window with a pinging sound, which meant it was close to hail, and then it was visible as tiny…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/sometimes-it-slanted-against-her-window-with-a-pinging-sound-which/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

> [All of us are better when we're loved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/all-of-us-are-better-when-we-re-loved/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

> [And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/and-then-there-came-into-my-heart-a-very-great-love-for-my-father-and/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

> [“Measure twice; cut once.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/measure-twice-cut-once/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

> [“ On a clear day you can see Prince Edward Island , we would say. Not "forever", just Prince Edward Island.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/on-a-clear-day-you-can-see-prince-edward-island-we-would-say-not/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

> [If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/if-people-aren-t-creating-literature-there-would-be-nothing-for/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

> [Writers write about what worries them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/writers-write-about-what-worries-them/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

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