Alasdair Gray
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Biography
Alasdair James Gray was a Scottish writer and artist. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and wrote on politics and the history of English and Scots literature.
"...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."
"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."
"Work as if you were in the early days of a better nation."
"I asked the headmaster of literature, "Why are there so many headmasters and so few poets? Is it easier for you to train your own kind than ours?" He said, "No. The emperor needs all the headmasters he can get. If a quarter of his people were headmasters he would be perfectly happy. But more than two poets would tear his kingdom apart.""
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"The first major Scottish novelist since Walter Scott."
"Gray is in my estimation a great writer, perhaps the greatest living in this archipelago today."
"Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation."
"I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it."