“You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.” Quote by John Scott
“It's basically a home-rule issue. I think the governing authority that appoints people as assessors certainly has reasons for doing it. ... And it certainly ought to be the board of assessors' right to say who is best qualified to serve as an appraiser.” PeopleThinkingReasonHomeIssuesOughtAuthorityBoardsQualifiedGoverningHome Rule Author:John Scott
“When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.” SeriousCommitFundingLotteryOffenceDoping Author:John Scott
“I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.” WayBookDifferentCertainLanguageConsciousDensity Author:John Scott
“I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.” IfsWould BeJobsNovelObligedFull Time Jobs Author:John Scott
“If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.” IfsThinkingNovelBasesLuxuryAppearing Author:John Scott
“These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.” FormChurchMoralConcernedTraditionalThese DaysDecline Author:John Scott
“The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.” FateMajorsSellsCriticalReviewsPublishersHandfulSuccessorsBookshops Author:John Scott
“My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.” PeopleSoulLastsKnownDoubtStageMy FriendsDiedVariousRememberedBlessRealisticDedicated Author:John Scott
“The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.” StoriesUseStyleProseConcentrating Author:John Scott
“This doesn't mean that they commit themselves to the view that this is all there is. Many scientists (including me) think that this is the case, but other scientists are religious, and believe that what is observed in nature is at least in part a result of God's will.” ThinkingBelieveMeanReligiousResultsViewsCasesScientistIncludingGods WillCommit Author:Steven Weinberg