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Alistair MacLeod Quotes

All of us are better when we're loved.

All of us are better when we're loved.

Alistair MacLeod
Alistair MacLeod (2012). “To Every Thing There Is a Season: A Cape Breton Christmas Story”, p.48, McClelland & Stewart

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

Alistair MacLeod
Life Is, Easy, Said
Alistair MacLeod (2010). “The Lost Salt Gift of Blood”, p.150, New Canadian Library

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
Dream, Father, Heart
Alistair MacLeod (2010). “Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod”, p.21, Emblem Editions

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

Alistair MacLeod
Hate, Places To Go
Alistair MacLeod (2010). “Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod”, p.36, Emblem Editions

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

Alistair MacLeod
Writing, Thinking, Stories
"A Lesson in the Art of Storytelling: An Interview with Alistair MacLeod". Interview with William Baer, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2005.

Writers write about what worries them.

Alistair MacLeod
Writing, Worry

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

Alistair MacLeod
Book, Charming, Fine

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