Morag Joss Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
1955

Morag Joss was born in England in 1955 and from the age of four grew up in Ayrshire, Scotland. She became a writer in 1996 after an early career in arts and museum management.

My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things.

Morag Joss
I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

Morag Joss
- People
- Events
- Survive

I have patches of insomnia, and I'm fascinated by the otherness of the world at night. The stillness. Daytime preoccupations fall away, standards change, thoughts change. It's a canvas for reinvention, I think.

Morag Joss
- World
- Thoughts
- Canvas
'The Night Following' is very interior; the events are, to a large degree, mental events.

Morag Joss
- Following
- Degree
- Large