I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
From Norman MacCaig
Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.
And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.
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.
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.
Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.
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