Alistair MacLeod Quotes

#1. All of us are better when we're loved.

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#2. And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations.

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#3. There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you.

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#4. Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

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#5. A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.

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#6. Writers write about what worries them.

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#7. Measure twice; cut once.

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#8. I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

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#9. No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

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#10. If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

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#11. Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all.

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