Quotes by James Kelman

James Kelman

Scottish writer

Lived from: 1946 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom

Born: 9 june 1946

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

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

  (1994)

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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.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• creativity
• authority
• something
• attention
• personal
• exigency

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