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• I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
• When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.
• But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better…
• If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.
• I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
• When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs…
• Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
• When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
• All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the…
• Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men…
• A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven…
• All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more…

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