Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Alistair MacLeod

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian novelist Alistair MacLeod.

Last updated on December 24, 2024.

Alistair MacLeod, was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island's rugged landscape and the resilient character of many of its inhabitants, the descendants of Scottish immigrants, who are haunted by ancestral memories and who struggle to reconcile the past and the present. MacLeod has been praised for his verbal precision, his lyric intensity and his use of simple, direct language that seems rooted in an oral tradition.

Canadian - Novelist | Born: July 20, 1936

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

Alistair MacLeod

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.

Alistair MacLeod

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.

Alistair MacLeod

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

Alistair MacLeod

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

Alistair MacLeod

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.

Alistair MacLeod

All of us are better when we're loved.

Alistair MacLeod

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

Alistair MacLeod

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

Alistair MacLeod

Writers write about what worries them.

Alistair MacLeod