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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online."
"Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use."
"It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon."
"It's very validating when you are new in the industry to get awards. It boosts your self-esteem."
"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
"That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance."
"Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will."
"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man."
"The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots."
"For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
"The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game."
"It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage."
"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion."
"There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double."
"But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?"
"Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest."
"The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me."
"My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline."
"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
"I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics."
"My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness."
"When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you."
"More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso."
"When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines."
"I've done nudity in lots of things before. It's something that's never particularly bothered me."
"Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner's servants, landsmen--being all that is left faithful of the ship's company--with stores for ten days at short rations, came ashore this day and flew British colours on the log-house in Treasure Island. Thomas Redruth, owner's servant, landsman, shot by the mutineers; James Hawkins, cabin boy--'And at the same time, I was wondering over poor Jim Hawkins' fate."
"Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men."
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