Quotes by : James Robertson

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can....

She was convinced the country was about to succumb to revolutionary socialism. Her own circumstances....

People think we didn't have theatres in Scotland for centuries because the Church suppressed them. Well,....

[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a....

Walking through a deserted city in the hours before dawn is sobering way beyond the undoing of the effects....

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and....

I stood staring to heaven and nothing came from there, no mercy or redemption. Whatever had come had....

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever....

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it.Not just wanted, but felt she deserved.....