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33 quotes by Norman MacCaig

The cover of MacCaig's Selected Poems Norman Alexander MacCaig OBE (14 November 1910 – 23 January 1996) was a Scottish poet and teacher. His poetry, in modern English, is known for its humour, simplicity of language and great popularity.
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I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

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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... →

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When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

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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... →

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Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

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Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.

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All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

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And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

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But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

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I don't think of myself all the time.

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I find it's impossible for me to read Proust.

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I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

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I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

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