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.....

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

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.....

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.

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

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