Alistair MacLeod Quotes

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

All of us are better when we’re loved.

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

Writers write about what worries them.

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.

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.

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

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