"I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that."

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"When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books."

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"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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"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."

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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."

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"All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed."

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"I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that."

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"When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books."

"When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous."

"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."

"And it's impossible for me to read Henry James."

"I don't think of myself all the time."

"I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense."

"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."

"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!"

"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."

"All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed."

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"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

"I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things."

"I can ski out of my back door."

"I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds."

"Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that."

"Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them."

"I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography."

"I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that."