Ability Quote by James Robertson

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

— James Robertson

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

— James Robertson

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…

— James Robertson

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

— James Robertson

“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…

— James Robertson

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

— James Robertson

[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…

— James Robertson

It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.

— James Robertson

“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

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

“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

When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we can see…

— James Robertson