Quotes by scottish authors

If I could achieve half as much as Broony's achieved in his career, I'll be delighted. John McGinn
Achieve Half Delighted Could His Achieved If I Could Much Career
If you've not got the doubts to go and prove people wrong, that's when you get into that comfort zone and stop progressing. John McGinn
You People Progressing Wrong Comfort Comfort Zone Got Prove Go Get Stop Doubts Zone
You will always have people to prove wrong. I always have done and I always will. I use that to spur me on and stay hungry and that's the big aim. John McGinn
Me You People Will Big Aim Hungry Stay Wrong Always Prove Spur Done Use
If you get too high it comes back to bite you on the backside so I was always aware in spells before when I've done well in a season, eventually there was a wee dip. John McGinn
You Before Too Spells Back Bite Backside High Dip Wee Well Always Get Done Season Aware Eventually
I'm not your normal central midfielder. John McGinn
Normal Central Your
I like to win the ball back for the team and I can contribute going forward. John McGinn
Win Back Like Ball Contribute Going Team Forward
Alan Hutton and I are always fighting the corner for Scottish football. It's a really tough league down here with a lot of quality players trying to get into the Premier League. John McGinn
Quality Tough Fighting Down Corner Football League Always Lot Scottish Get Trying Really Premier Premier League Alan Players Here
I look at the likes of Darren Fletcher and Scott Brown and they're just normal people. They are humble and work away to become the best they can. That's the path I've tried to follow. John McGinn
Work Best Humble People Path Become Tried Follow Brown Look Likes Normal Normal People Scott Just Away
If you try too hard to fit in you become something you are not. John McGinn
You Try Become Too Something Fit Hard
It's an amazing feeling playing at a packed-out Villa Park. John McGinn
Amazing Feeling Park Amazing Feeling Villa Playing
You dream as a player of having fans chanting your name. John McGinn
You Fans Chanting Dream Having Name Your Player
All you want to do is first and foremost a job for the team but if you can entertain the people in the stands, and make then enjoy their day, then it helps. John McGinn
Day You People Job First Enjoy Entertain Make Foremost Want Then Team Stands Helps
If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it. John Niven
You People Water Long Sit Cold Out Has-Been Put Until Been Jump Scotland Frog Gradually Sitting Dies Straight Used England Boil Boiling Many Right Bring
I do often feel that the single greatest thing about my job is that I don't have a boss. I'm like an overweight Han Solo: I take orders from just one person - me. John Niven
Me Job Single Solo About Boss Take Feel Like Greatest Greatest Thing Overweight Person Often Just Orders Just One Thing
I once read Updike after writing a first draft, and I wanted to put my own book on the fire. I've since learned to read utter crap while I'm writing: pulp is the thing. John Niven
Book Writing Fire First Own Once My Own Put Since Read Learned Wanted Crap After While Utter Thing Draft Pulp
In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way. John Niven
Death You Job Looking Down Thirties Other Teens Way Glance Road Occasionally Becomes Exist Then Forties Your Full-Time Full-Time Job Down The Road Twenties
I'm very fond of Glasgow, particularly the West End. The whole stretch of the west coast of Scotland from Loch Lomond up through Mallaig to the Kyle of Localsh is so beautiful. John Niven
Beautiful Fond Through Glasgow Particularly West West Coast End Up Very Scotland Coast Whole Stretch
My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane. John Niven
Time Family Travel Remember Impossible Relatives First Air Spending Air Travel Visit Toronto Wear Abroad Glamour Had Days She First Time Been Trying Going Decide Eighties Plane Mum Ever Early
I go to the Caribbean for a month every January with hand baggage only. All you need is a passport and a credit card. John Niven
You Every Caribbean Month Only Baggage Go Passport Hand January Credit Card Credit Card Need
Being on set is difficult for the writer. Your job is done, and you have to step back and hand it over to the director. John Niven
You Director Job Difficult Back Writer Step Over Hand Done Being Your Set
When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want. John Niven
You Narrative Making Want Used Novelist
I do find the sight of small children eating very moving. Watch the way their tiny fingers clamp the cutlery. The exaggeratedly precise way they move cups or glasses to their lips. John Niven
Glasses Way Sight Find Eating Fingers Small Small Children Cups Very Lips Precise Move Tiny Children Moving Watch
I quite like the Queen. Now, this must come as a fairly amazing statement for someone who is avowedly left wing, pro-independence and anti-monarchy, but there you go. John Niven
You Queen Amazing Statement Must Someone Wing Come Like Fairly Go Left Left-Wing Quite Who Now
If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic. John Niven
You Queen Become Our Say Would Would-Be About Week Pushed Like Know Most Sure Victoria Ethic Who Monarch Her Elizabeth
It is publication week for my new novel 'The Sunshine Cruise Company.' Go me! Anyway, I may as well get the shameless plug over with right away - buy it. You'll like it. It's about a bunch of old ladies who rob a bank. John Niven
Buy Me You Sunshine Old Plug About Week Shameless Cruise Over New Rob Like Well Go Bunch Get May Bank Ladies Anyway Who Company Novel Publication Away Right Right Away
I have to confess to not being a great forward planner. I'm the kind of person who regularly arranges to have dinner with five different people on the same night. John Niven
Great People Dinner Kind Five Person Confess Same Being Different Different People Planner Regularly Who Forward Night
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