John Scott
John Scott
golf snow balls
You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.
home thinking issues
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.
serious funding commit
When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.
book way different
I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.
jobs would-be novel
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.
thinking luxury novel
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.
church moral these-days
These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.
fate reviews bookshops
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.
people soul doubt
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.
loyalty unique deceit
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.
doubt misery decided
I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.
dream real hands
I got to see first hand what he has done to make this a reality. That has been real rewarding to watch him achieve his dream.
ideas doors next
It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.
teenager responsibility people
People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.