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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 not
feel, 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 day
Was 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 was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. — 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

Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses? — Norman MacCaig

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. — 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

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry. — Norman MacCaig

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me. — Norman MacCaig

Men are obtuse. You have to beat them over the head with a frying pan to get them to notice things. — Jaci Burton

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out. — Norman MacCaig

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

There are only two places in the league - first place and no place. — Tom Seaver

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

80 per cent of people who care about politics and national issues fall in the 'taking sides' category. — Chetan Bhagat