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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
Explore more quotes by Norman MacCaig
"When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man."
"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody."
"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."
"If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex."
"There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books."
"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."
"When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous."
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