James Kelman Quotes

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

  James Kelman

  Culture, Language, Authority

  1994 Speech at the Booker Prize award ceremony, 11 Oct.

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• El 99% de la literatura inglesa tradicional trata de personas que nunca tienen que preocuparse por el dinero. Parece que siempre estamos viendo o leyendo sobre crisis emocionales entre gente que vive en un mundo de gran fortuna tanto en cuestiones de suerte como de dinero; historias y fantasías sobre estrellas del rock y del cine, millonarios del deporte y modelos; miembros de la aristocracia de la jet set y financieros internacionales.

  James Kelman

  Stars, Reading, Emotional

  James Kelman (2012). “And the Judges Said&…: Essays”, p.56, Birlinn

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

  James Kelman

  Art, Creativity, Creation

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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

  James Kelman

  Order, Needs, Attention

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Telarañas teóricas, telarañas sucias, telarañas polvorientas, viejas y marchitas en la nada, un polvo fino. Mucho mejor salir al aire libre y hacerlo, hacerlo de verdad, algo sólido y concreto e inconceptualizable.

  James Kelman

  Dirty, Air, Dust

  1989 A Disaffection.

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• 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.

  James Kelman

  Integrity, Drama, Mean

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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