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Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

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

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.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

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

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!

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

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

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