Alasdair Gray Quotes
You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.
...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.
I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.
Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.
She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.
But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—
I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.
The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content.
People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs, ' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people
Metaforen är ett av tankens väsentligaste verktyg. Den belyser vad som annars skulle ligga helt i mörker. Men denna belysning blir ibland så klar att den bländar istället för avslöjar.
One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.
Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.
You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.