"All those authors there, most of whom of……" — Norman MacCaig
"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 fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed."
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33 Quotes by Norman MacCaig
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I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
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When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.
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But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room -…
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If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age…
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I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural…
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When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever,…
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Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
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When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
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Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot…
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A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have…
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All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them,…
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And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet -…
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