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I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.
— Norman MacCaig
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
— Norman MacCaig
I will not feel, I will notfeel, until
I have to — Norman MacCaig
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
— Norman MacCaig
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
— Norman MacCaig
And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
— Norman MacCaig
I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl.
— Cherie Lunghi
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
A movie grants a visa. A book makes you a citizen.
— D.B.C. Pierre
The dayWas like the buzzard on the pine. — Norman MacCaig
A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.
— Norman MacCaig
I didn't turn with the enemy pilots as a rule. I might make one turn to see what the situation was but not often. It was too risky.
— John C. Meyer
Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.
— Norman MacCaig
I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.
— Norman MacCaig
But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings ... That's not quite true!
— Norman MacCaig
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
— Norman MacCaig
I don't think of myself all the time.
— Norman MacCaig
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
— Norman MacCaig
The truth shall make you free, but first it will make you miserable.
— Douglas Preston
Men are obtuse. You have to beat them over the head with a frying pan to get them to notice things.
— Jaci Burton
I just didn't want to shoot other people.
— Norman MacCaig
I find it's impossible for me to read Proust.
— Norman MacCaig
The creature - " A low growl rumbled from the backseat. "Peaches," I said. "I don't think he likes to be called 'the creature.'" "Fine,
— Orlando Sanchez
In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.
— Norman MacCaig
When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
— Norman MacCaig
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
— Norman MacCaig
Whe you're so infatuated with someone like I was with Drew,it's very difficult to see them for what they really are
— Dorothy Koomson
People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.
— Norman MacCaig
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
— Norman MacCaig
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
— Baron De Montesquieu
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.
— Norman MacCaig
If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.
— Norman MacCaig
