When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.
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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.Norman MacCaig
People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.
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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.
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I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
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I don't think of myself all the time.
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It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.
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