The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She… — James Robertson Copy Share
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself. — James Robertson Copy Share Image
The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of… — James Robertson Copy Share
I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper. — James Robertson Copy Share Image
“But I do like Scotland. I like the miserable weather. I like the miserable people, the fatalism, the negativity, the violence that's always just below the surface. And I like the way you deal with religion. One century you're up to your lugs in it, the next you're trading the whole apparatus in for Sunday superstores. Praise the Lord and… — James Robertson Copy Share
There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence. — James Robertson Copy Share Image
Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse;… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities ... maybe we… — James Robertson Copy Share
It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do. — James Robertson Copy Share Image
“People think we didn't have theatres in Scotland for centuries because the Church suppressed them. Well, perhaps. But you could also argue that we… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is. — James Robertson Copy Share Image
“Walking through a deserted city in the hours before dawn is sobering way beyond the undoing of the effects of alcohol. Every thing is… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
