Crump
Television (Excerpts) – 1999
I had to stop him and tell him that he wasn't writing a police report ... the only people he'd talked to that'd had a typewriter in front of him before had been policemen.
– Writer Kevin Ireland on coaching Crump, before his publication in literary magazine Mate
An ability to speak freshly and vividly and without cliche ...
– A Good Keen Man editor Alexander Fry, on Crump's early literary talent
We'll just have a wee breather here Scotty, we'll have to wait for the dog — he's lighter eh.
– Barry to a petrified Scotty (Lloyd Scott) as they recover from a cliff jump, in an 80s Toyota ad
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