Quotes by Norman MacCaig
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I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.
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