Alistair MacLeod quotes

“All of us are better when we're loved.”
-- Alistair MacLeod

Source : Alistair MacLeod (2012). “To Every Thing There Is a Season: A Cape Breton Christmas Story”, p.48, McClelland & Stewart

“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

Source : Alistair MacLeod (2010). “Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod”, p.21, Emblem Editions

#Dream Quotes #Father Quotes #Heart Quotes

“No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.”
-- Alistair MacLeod

Source : Alistair MacLeod (2010). “The Lost Salt Gift of Blood”, p.150, New Canadian Library

#Life Is Quotes #Easy Quotes #Said Quotes

“I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.”
-- Alistair MacLeod

Source : "A Lesson in the Art of Storytelling: An Interview with Alistair MacLeod". Interview with William Baer, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2005.

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all.”
-- Alistair MacLeod

Source : Alistair MacLeod (2010). “Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod”, p.36, Emblem Editions

#Hate Quotes #Places To Go Quotes

“Writers write about what worries them.”
-- Alistair MacLeod

#Writing Quotes #Worry Quotes

“A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.”
-- Alistair MacLeod

#Book Quotes #Charming Quotes #Fine Quotes