Quotes by : Alasdair Gray

Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small,....

The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content.....

Metaforen är ett av tankens väsentligaste verktyg. Den belyser vad som annars skulle ligga helt i mörker.....

Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of....

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels....

People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past-....

I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for....

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought,....

Who did the council fight?""It split in two and fought itself.""That's suicide!""No, ordinary behaviour.....