32 Quotes by Alasdair Gray

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

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

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

Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small, but these oppressions still make them into slightly insane adults, either mad to seize all the power they once lacked or (more usually) mad to avoid it.

...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.

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

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

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

Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.