I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century. Norman MacCaig Read Quote
All those authors there, most of whom of course I’ve never met. That’s the poetry side, that’s the prose side, that’s the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you’ve enjoyed. Norman MacCaig Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books. Norman MacCaig Read Quote
If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex. Norman MacCaig Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
And in a way, that’s been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet – sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody. Norman MacCaig Read Quote
