All of us are better when we're loved.

- Alistair Macleod

Writers write about what worries them.

- Alistair Macleod

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

- Alistair Macleod

Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all.

- Alistair Macleod

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 …

- Alistair Macleod

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

- Alistair Macleod

A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.

- Alistair Macleod