Alistair MacLeod Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: July 20, 1936

Topics

TodayThinkLiteratureCreateWrite

I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

Jim Jarmusch

New YorkLovedLiteratureYearNew

I've always thrown like a girl.

Andrea Riseborough

GirlAlwaysLikeThrown

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Andre Gide

LoveBeautyPrayerHandsYoungSoil

When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.

Ann Hood

StarsEyesDayCityWritingWorld

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

Jean Racine

VirtueBrutalityPushedOutright

I am a Christian. I know I am a Christian, knowing that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.

Ronnie Milsap

I AmChristianKnowKnowingLordAm

Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up.

Ruth Reichl

DownRunWayWriteTopOut

People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.

Michael K. Williams

LovePeopleMeChooseCareerSay

I think that with West Ham, it was more complicated for me. It happened naturally; there was urgency to leave West Ham.

Dimitri Payet

MeThinkComplicatedUrgencyMore

At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.

Clive Sinclair

HistoryPastSchoolPlaceRunNever

I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to the reader, but also I need clarity.

Claire Messud

ExperienceWorldClarityWillWay

When a fan says, 'Man, you saved my life; I heard 'Jungleland'... and I cried... and I felt joy in my life again,' that's my hall of fame.

Clarence Clemons

LifeManJoyMy LifeYouFame

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