May Hooper

“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, 1982, Janine

“But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—”
― Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books

“I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.”
― Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books

“Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.”
― Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books