Alasdair Gray

It's a parochial thing, but Alasdair Gray is my favourite author. Or perhaps it's not just parochial - not just a Glasgow boy idolising what Anthony Burgess called "the greatest Scottish author since Sir Walter Scott". Like most people, I came to Gray by reading Lanark, his syncretic novel that, by its hodge-podge of different themes and thoughts, attains the coherence of a symphony. But I have come to love his artwork, his poems, and his other prose.

This is a quote of his, put in Indian ink, tinted with watercolour.