On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

- James Robertson

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

- James Robertson

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the futur…

- James Robertson

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

- James Robertson

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

- James Robertson

It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.

- James Robertson

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

- James Robertson

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as…

- James Robertson

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

- James Robertson