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.....

He looked at them and saw their faces did not fit. The skin on the skulls crawled and twitched like half-solid....

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....

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

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you....