Alistair MacLeod Quotations

There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you.

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.

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.

Writers write about what worries them.

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

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

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

All of us are better when we're loved.

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.