People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.
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In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.Norman MacCaig
If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.
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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!
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There are books up there I haven't read for many years but I wouldn't put them out. I never know when I might want to read them again.
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I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
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When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
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