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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have."
"Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago."
"Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous."
"Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry."
"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
"Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed."
"I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be."
"During the war some of the country's sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards."
"Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning."
"There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it."
"She could now be sad without losing a jot of hope. Nay, rather, the least approach of sadness would begin at once to wake her hope. She regretted nothing that had come, nothing that had gone. She believed more and more that not anything worth having is ever lost; that even the most evanescent shades of feeling are safe for those who grow after their true nature, toward that for which they were made-in other and higher words, after the will of God."
"A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces."
"I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job."
"We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us?"
"When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes."
"That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous."
"Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society."
"There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event."
"At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard."
"I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby."
"I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!"
"Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown."
"What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?"
"In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants."
"The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence."
"Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat."
"With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you're parodying."
"People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter."
"The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war."
"I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares."
"I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female."
"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."
"You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do."
"It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter."
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