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"I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century."

— Norman MacCaig

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33 Quotes by Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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 -…
If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age…
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural…
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever,…
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,…
Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot…
A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have…
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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These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. — Julian Assange
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
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