Top 16 Lanark Alasdair Gray Quotes
#2. I say to the young: Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#3. There will never be another Ren Lewis. And that's why God gave you such impossible talents. Because you were meant to do things humans shouldn't. That is your talent and your curse.
Sarah Noffke
#4. Fear is in the waiting, not the fighting." -- Snake (character in Slitherskins, scheduled for release in summer, 2014)
Martha Gilstrap
#5. There is God only in the desert, he wanted to acknowledge that now. Outside of this there was just trade and power, money and war.
Michael Ondaatje
#6. I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it is important to people. Without it, lives can be dull.
Stan Lee
#7. Lanark said irritably, "You seem to understand my questions, but your answers make no sense to me."
"That's typical of life, isn't it?
Alasdair Gray
#8. Gravity, n.
I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.
David Levithan
#9. Every stylistic excess and moral defect which critics conspired to ignore in the author's first books, LANARK and UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY, is to be found here in concentrated form.
Alasdair Gray
#10. Writing isn't easy because you have to relieve the most painful moments of your life, over and over again, and then you have to write them down, hoping that they'll matter to someone else other than yourself.
Cristian Mihai
#11. in this age of great ambiguity and relentless change, so many people cut "ethical corners". Too many people think that dishonesty will get them ahead.
Robin S. Sharma
#12. Tell me, Dr. Lanark, is there a connection between your love of vast panorama and your distate for human problems?
Alasdair Gray
#13. A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
Ted Dekker
#14. What satisfaction do you, personally, get from being a writer?" Lanark tried to remember. He said, "It's the only disciplined work I remember trying. I sleep better for it.
Alasdair Gray
#16. We looked at each other with that resentment you feel when you want something so much it's causing you pain, so much you start to hate it a little.
Leah Raeder
