Alistair MacLeod Quotes

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• Writers write about what worries them.

  Alistair MacLeod

  Writing, Worry

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

  Alistair MacLeod

  Book, Charming, Fine

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