Alistair MacLeod Quotes & Sayings

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. — Alistair MacLeod

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it. — Alistair MacLeod

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived. — Alistair MacLeod

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize. — Alistair MacLeod

Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all. — Alistair MacLeod

Measure twice; cut once. — Alistair MacLeod

All of us are better when we're loved. — Alistair MacLeod

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. — Alistair MacLeod

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. — Alistair MacLeod

Writers write about what worries them. — Alistair MacLeod

A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book. — Alistair MacLeod