James Kelman quotes
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“Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.”
-- James KelmanSource : James Kelman (2012). “And the Judges Said&…: Essays”, p.56, Birlinn
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“My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.”
-- James KelmanSource : 1994 Speech at the Booker Prize award ceremony, 11 Oct.
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“Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far better getting out into the open air and doing it, actually doing it, something solid and concrete and unconceptualisable.”
-- James KelmanSource : 1989 A Disaffection.
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“Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive.”
-- James KelmanSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.”
-- James KelmanSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of literature, I mean drama, there is only silence. That sort of aesthetic integrity does not exist in radio and television, and seldom on film.”
-- James KelmanSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1998). “Glare”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
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Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”
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“We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.”
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“Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.”
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“I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.”
Source : Source: www.smh.com.au
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“The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.”
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