"When I was asked to be Writer in……" — Norman MacCaig
"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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Norman MacCaig
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33 Quotes by Norman MacCaig
Norman MacCaig has 33 quotes on this site.
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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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All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side,…
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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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