Quotes by John Scott

John Scott

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

Decided

Doubt

Misery

I don’t see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it’s perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

Book

Density

Different

I got to see first hand what he has done to make this a reality. That has been real rewarding to watch him achieve his dream.

Dream

Hands

Real

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.

Jobs

Novel

Would Be

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

Luxury

Novel

Thinking

In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they’re welcome. The books aren’t there to accuse others – merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.

Book

Issues

Mirrors

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It’s probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

Hype

Loyalty

Unique

It’s always better if you’re next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don’t always come up in a conference call.

Doors

Ideas

It’s basically a home-rule issue. I think the governing authority that appoints people as assessors certainly has reasons for doing it. … And it certainly ought to be the board of assessors’ right to say who is best qualified to serve as an appraiser.

Home

Issues

Thinking

My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer – that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.

Doubt

People

Soul

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Appreciate

Artist

Balls

Book

Bookshops

Church

Commit

Crosses

Decided

Decline

Density

Different

Done

Doors

Doubt

Dream

Ethics

Fate

Funding

Golf

Hands

Home

Hype

Ideas

Innocence And Experience

Issues

Jobs

Loyalty

Luxury

Mirrors

Misery

Moral

Novel

Ocean

People

Real

Responsibility

Reviews

Serious

Snow

Soul

Stories

Style

Teenager

Thinking

Tourism

Trying

Unique

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Quotes by John Scott

John Scott

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

I don’t see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it’s perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

I got to see first hand what he has done to make this a reality. That has been real rewarding to watch him achieve his dream.

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they’re welcome. The books aren’t there to accuse others – merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It’s probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

It’s always better if you’re next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don’t always come up in a conference call.

It’s basically a home-rule issue. I think the governing authority that appoints people as assessors certainly has reasons for doing it. … And it certainly ought to be the board of assessors’ right to say who is best qualified to serve as an appraiser.

My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer – that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.

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