James Kelman Quotes

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.

My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

Creativity is not passive, I don’t see the creation of art as passive.

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.