William Mcilvanney Inspirational Quotes (6)

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives of those outside the law may sometimes be found concealed honesty and naive ideals.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.