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.
John ScottI 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.
John ScottThese days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.
John ScottThe 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.
John Scott